[Company Man]

This is pretty much the same reply I received from the Boston Globe's web editor - the story is no longer linked directly from their site, so in their opinion, it no longer exists! While in fact, the bogus story is STILL being hosted by their web server, and anyone with the URL can bring it up.

Their web master could truly kill the story with a single keystroke (renaming the fraudulent source document), but nooooo.

[mrustow]

"This is pretty much the same reply I received from the Boston Globe's web editor - the story is no longer linked directly from their site, so in their opinion, it no longer exists! While in fact, the bogus story is STILL being hosted by their web server, and anyone with the URL can bring it up."

You have a link for that? Because when I hit the original link at the Boston Globe, I got a dead Web page.

[supercat]

Their web master could truly kill the story with a single keystroke (renaming the fraudulent source document), but nooooo.

Actually, what I'd like to see news sites do would be to have such pages preserved with their original text, prepended by a header:

ATTENTION: This article has been superceded. Newest version is available here.

The article you have requested has been found to be factually incomplete or erroneous, or is now out of date. It is reproduced below for historical interest only, as the information expressed therein may be incorrect.

Such handling would avoid a 1984-ish "memory hole" while at the same time limiting the spread of incorrect "news".