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To: HenryLeeII; Fatalis; mattdono; conservativecorner; eno_; All

"Where is the correction by WHO? - I'm not doubting you, I just haven't seen it"

As far as I know, there hasn't been any official correction, the line about Thursday has just *disappeared* from the stories on this.

I know what I heard on the radio when the news first broke on a CNN affiliate station, and they said he went into a coma on Thursday.

Now, it may be that there's nothing there--perhaps the issue was so important to Reeve that on his deathbed he watched the debate and gathered the strength to call Kerry.

Hoever, based on the seriousness of Reeve's condition and on what we know about Kerry's opportunistic personality and tendency to lie, I think it's more reasonable to assume that Kerry made up the story.


256 posted on 10/12/2004 1:37:47 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (To the "undecideds": Want some wood? Vote for GW November 2. You'll feel better.)
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To: proud American in Canada
As far as I know, there hasn't been any official correction, the line about Thursday has just *disappeared* from the stories on this.

Well, that's my real problem with this. This is an emerging problem with cataloguing information. When there is no (or fragile) audit trail of where the news or information comes from, it makes facts much more hard to establish. The liberals are all for this, especially since (in large part) they control many of the information/media sources. Now, we are here to combat the lies.

I highly suggest that you think about a screen capture program. I also save the files, but that is subject to accussation of corruption. And, while the graphics are subject to the same accussation the file (image) will stand up to scrutiny. In addition, and the reason why I posted the .avi file, you can use the screen cpature to record a "video" of the screen, in this case showing the 2 different versions right next to each other. Which gets to how insidious this issue really is (in a larger context).

WHOTV used the same article (URL). I pulled up the one article, wen to a meeting, came back, checked the thread and Congressman BilllyBob alerted me that the story had changed. Luckily, I had pulled up the initial story in another tab (thank you, Firefox!) and had a tab with the revised story. Now, that normally isn't going to happen. The use of the same URL makes it seem as if there was only/always just 1 version. News web pages should always use version controls when they are revising any story.

This is a real problem and it continues to grow.

257 posted on 10/12/2004 1:58:11 PM PDT by mattdono ("Crush the democrats, drive them before you, and hear the lamentations of the scumbags" -Big Arnie)
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To: proud American in Canada
As far as I know, there hasn't been any official correction, the line about Thursday has just *disappeared* from the stories on this.

I know what I heard on the radio when the news first broke on a CNN affiliate station, and they said he went into a coma on Thursday.

Maybe so but there is currently not a single source for a Thursday coma that turns up in Google News, but there are hundreds for a Saturday coma. Look at the links at #155. The Thursday coma story is clearly a mistake.

258 posted on 10/12/2004 2:00:35 PM PDT by Fatalis (The Libertarian Party is to politics as Esperanto is to linguistics.)
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