But for now, we'll have fun.
You see, back in the old days, before the world was wired, nobody remembered what you said yesterday. That was a great thing for newspaper pundits. They had complete freedom to spin with the prevailing winds, and if they contradicted themselves, nobody would notice because their words would be inaccessible in a couple of days, entombed on microfiche in the dry stacks of a musty library, used to line the bottom of a birdcage, or to wrap a particularly smelly piece of fish.
Which brings us to the New York Times.
Andrew Sullivan points out a particularly glaring example of the Times engaging in a particularly egregious case of self contradictory spin.
How embarrassing!
At some point, print media might realize that archiving can now be done at the individual level, and take measures to ensure that these embarrassing little mistakes stop. An optimist would suggest that they'll stop spinning the news, and engage in a little more straight reportage. On the other hand, a realist will assume they'll just make their archives inaccessible.
Or, like the KNS, they'll make you pay to retrieve an article.
Posted by Rich at November 13, 2003 1:38 PM | TrackBack