Posted on 10/04/2009 11:40:54 AM PDT by 50mm
Edited on 10/04/2009 3:31:45 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Those who read the New York Times's coverage of the unsuccessful results of Barack and Michelle Obama's attempt to seal the 2016 Summer Olympics bid for Chicago on Friday afternoon ('For Obama, an Unsuccessful Campaign") might want to read it again.
If it doesn't seem the same, it's because it isn't.
Blogger Weasel Zippers (HT Hot Air Headlines via Instapundit) caught the Times committing a major scrub of the story. But it's really worse than that.
An excerpt of the item's first five paragraphs posted at FreeRepublic at 4:44 Eastern Time on October 2 shows that the article was apparently originally published under the same title with Peter Baker's byline Friday sometime Friday afternoon.
NYT: For Obama, An Unsuccessful Campaign ["He Could Not Even Muster The Silver Or Bronze"]
Every one of us who attended the demonstration saw one or more helecopters flying over the crowd in what's probably the most locked down airspace in the world. All of them had to be either govenment owned and operated or chartered by powerful DemonRats with the clout to get the necessary permits. Nevertheles, not a single areial picture taken from any of those choppers has ever been published. Looks to me like the DemonRats saw them, realized the crowd was about 1,800,000, making it history's largest at a DC demonstration, including the Illegal Alien's inauguration, and memory holed all of the pics.
Wonder if the same folks who told a Chicago paper to not run a follow-up story about Chicagoans not wanting the Olympics also had a chat with the Slimes - as in, nice paper you have here; it't be a shame if something were to happen to it.
Wow, I didn't know about that. I wonder if a FOIA request could be made.
I recall a post about military satellite images being used to determine the size of the 0's inauguration crowd - seems their ought to also be satellite images of the 9/12 crowd.
Those pics might have a negative affect on the ‘image’ you see. If they were private, they were only there to get pics of a small crowd so they could howl and denigrate the effort.
Can you imagine what a shock when they realized what was happening? And the reality of dissatisfaction of the people?
As usual their attitude is to deny reality, evade the consequences, because of one or two things. They have every confidence that the 2010 elections can be rigged in their favor...or they think that everyone will eventually wear down and settle down and accept the communist takeover rather than fight it.
But they are taking a foolish gamble. I think if they shove through the public option and then cap ‘n trade, it might just be the last straw! Things are going to heat up fast and we’re not in the mood to take prisoners, lol :)
What a fashion sense the guy has.
As in poor, crappy, weird ...
That’s how the power people dress in NYC ?????
Sheeeesh
I agree.
What can we do about it?
Wow. Thanks for posting.
And Steelfish for posting the original Slimes article.
I certainly wasn't stunned or appalled.
I must be just numb to all this now.....
Even though...I still think the MEDIA is THE most dangerous entity in the U.S.A.
FRegards,
I LOVE it when these fools get caught.
Dear NYT Ombudsman,
What can you tell us about this scrub?
This is a great catch. Pretty transparent coercion.
I have to think there is a major copyright “fair use” exception lurking in there. Under the old paradigm, the first print edition would serve as the proof that the story was altered, which is news in itself regardless of the content. However, under electronic publishing there usually is no older version of the story should the publisher take it down. Think about how easy it is to erase the file vs go out and round up all the newspaper copies. True, some stuff is captured fairly quickly by Google, the wayback machine, etc., but that is not always the case and there is nothing saying they will make that content available. Therefore, web sites like FreeRepublic that post and comment on the news are actually performing an important public service under the electronic model by capturing “before” versions and reporting on the effort of some news sources to obscure the record.
This reminds me of the book “Animal Farm” where quotes change overnight. Try to determine history using a Soviet history book.
Could ya add a FR mention in the title????
I like that and may violate your copyright. LOL
I had to abbreviate the title as it is. FR limits the number of characters in the title. Sorry.
Way to go Steel. Ya caught them with their pants down.
Thanks!
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