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The New York Times wants their lies to be memory-holed.

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Yes it does.

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He who controls the past etc etc...

Just another perk of being the official Narrative Enforcement Agents (aka Thought Police) of the GAE.

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Since the NYT claims to be the "newspaper of record" their bar should be the highest.

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but it is the highest: they have the highest amount of views, the highest revenue and serve only the highest masters and sell only the highest narratives to the people at the highest rungs of our society (all designed to keep the highest from having to answer to the lowest).

just as Our Democracy™ has replaced Democracy, Trusted News Sources™ (w the NYT on the highest rung) have replaced Journalism...

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Those who refuse to learn from the past are doomed to rewrite it.

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The stuff back then isn't fit to print anymore.

They are protecting their specious Trump-era Pulitzers.

Troubled people sometimes self-harm?

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Most libraries provide access to their database but they may edit that as well.

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It will be interesting. Publishers are ambivalent about sites like this.

I have run into an online 1913 Christian Herald that is in a "PDF archive" format that I have never seen. The doc cannot be edited. It may be protected by law, I don't know. Keep your items coming!

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that's smart--pdfs--but doubt they will do it.

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Just want to say how much I enjoy your and look forward to your Substack.

All best, Katy

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Please tell me you’re not surprised

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Yeah, that sucks, although the shifts are usually not in the widely direction understood.

elm

so

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Damn fine reporting!

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This is bad behavior IMO.

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I love the Internet Archive!

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Sometimes I post edit what I comment on.

What's the biggie

We All Do It.

Cheers

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Their edits sometimes change the substance of their articles. Not just typos.

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What would George Orwell's comment be?!!

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