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One obstacle to selling the narrative about race and crime is the huge volume of old news stories on the internet.
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Washingon Post | Jan. 23, 2021
The Boston Globe has joined a handful of newsrooms around the country doing something once unthinkable: changing old articles because they are ruining a person’s life.
The newspaper on Friday launched its Fresh Start initiative, which allows people to petition to have information about them removed from or added to old stories, to have their names anonymized, or to have the stories delisted from Google searches.
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The initiative comes out of a reexamination at the Globe and many other newsrooms about how they cover race, prompted by last year’s nationwide protests over the police killing of George Floyd.
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In the past few months, the Kansas City Star and the Los Angeles Times have apologized for how they covered local communities of color over the years, and both newspapers have published pieces explaining how their reporting contributed to racial inequities.
--- The idea of removing names — let alone an entire article — from a newspaper’s digital archive is traditionally anathema for many journalists...
... but no longer. Journalism is woke now. And with the help of big tech, the historical record can be altered to further the goal of equity.
“For a long time the instinct was, ‘Nope, we're not even going to think about this. We are about seeking the truth and reporting it and we don’t go back and unreport it,’ ” said Kathleen Culver, the James E. Burgess Chair in Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
But Culver argued that changing or delisting old stories falls squarely within journalists’ responsibility to hold powerful institutions accountable. “You don’t want to extend the harm of an unjust system by having your coverage be unjust,” she said.
The leftists mainstream news media never stop in their efforts to keep the public misinformed and deceived. And they never stop trying to give their political allies an advantage and they call that equality. This is the media that went out of its way to make sure you knew about and hyped up every "Karen" incident and got people fired and their reputations ruined.
Virtue signaling bs. They can update or add. And if they word the initial reports propertly this wouldn't be an issue. They are using the claim that police reports of George Floyd were wrong. Well duh one is supposed to verify, get multiple sources and uses phrases like "according to police" or 'other accounts contradict' them.
They said they only want to do it on a community level but in the day and age of internet nah. Since they are refusing to update everyone's story they probably be sued by those who didn't their name scrubbed.
I ask again are they going to scrub all their "Karen" and racist stories they hyped up or are they just going to scrub alleged crime report stories from their favored identity groups?
This is one reason news should be reported as news. Headlines and content should not be editorialized and be shorter and more blah. ReportORs are supposed to be reporting the news. If something needs back ground or context add to the story. Even if a person is arrested and found not guilty the fact they were arrested or an arrest was made in connection to a crime is news and part of the record. It would also ad context to a story about a person wrongly convicted. Sometimes stories are on going with drips of information.
They're narrative building, they want their version of events on a historical record.
I ask again are they going to scrub all their "Karen" and racist stories they hyped up or are they just going to scrub alleged crime report stories from their favored identity groups?
If this...
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“For a long time the instinct was, ‘Nope, we're not even going to think about this. We are about seeking the truth and reporting it and we don’t go back and unreport it,’ ” said Kathleen Culver, the James E. Burgess Chair in Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
But Culver argued that changing or delisting old stories falls squarely within journalists’ responsibility to hold powerful institutions accountable. “You don’t want to extend the harm of an unjust system by having your coverage be unjust,” she said.
... becomes the mainstream view, and the idea that responsible people ought to tell the truth gets thrown out the window, then they'll do whatever they think furthers the agenda. Up until now it's been easy to win arguments about crime with silly leftists just by googling a couple things. But those days may soon be over.
The only way to get the real news is to go through old newspaper archives then, as long as they still offer them. It's truly 1984 come true.... altering the past as a way of changing the narrative. Makes you wonder how often it's been done and how much of our "history" is really accurate. One of my favorite quotes from any TV series:
"There is an ancient Indian saying that something lives only as long as the last person who remembers it. My people have come to trust memory over history. Memory, like fire, is radiant and immutable while history serves only those who seek to control it, those who douse the flame of memory in order to put out the dangerous fire of truth. Beware these men for they are dangerous themselves and unwise. Their false history is written in the blood of those who might remember and of those who seek the truth."
many journalists say it’s a worthy, and overdue, undertaking.
“This is really about examining [journalism] conventions and seeing when they are just conventions that have been adopted without thought and are actually harmful, and when they are conveying relevant and useful information,” said Susan Chira, editor of the Marshall Project, which covers the criminal justice system. “It’s a welcome reexamination.”
And by "relevant and useful" she of course means relevant and useful to the narrative that people of color are the victims of systemic racism and white supremacy, not the perpetrators of a vastly disproportionate amount of crime.
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