Comments on: New York Times pulls a post, but it lives on http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/09/new-york-times-pulls-a-post-but-it-lives-on/ A collaborative effort to figure out the future of journalism. A project of Harvard University. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:39:00 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nieman Journalism Lab: NYTimes’ pulled post lives on | DAILYMAIL http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/09/new-york-times-pulls-a-post-but-it-lives-on/comment-page-1/#comment-33337 Nieman Journalism Lab: NYTimes’ pulled post lives on | DAILYMAIL Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:47:48 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=8284#comment-33337 [...] Full post at this link… [...] [...] Full post at this link… [...]

]]> By: Danielle http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/09/new-york-times-pulls-a-post-but-it-lives-on/comment-page-1/#comment-33146 Danielle Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:48:31 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=8284#comment-33146 Good Lord, NYT—pay more attention to improving the paper and less to unmasking the person/people behind one critical blog. Reall, it's undignified! Good Lord, NYT—pay more attention to improving the paper and less to unmasking the person/people behind one critical blog. Reall, it’s undignified!

]]> By: Mis-outed anonyblogger « BaptistPlanet http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/09/new-york-times-pulls-a-post-but-it-lives-on/comment-page-1/#comment-33035 Mis-outed anonyblogger « BaptistPlanet Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:04:42 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=8284#comment-33035 [...] the Jacksonville, Fla., sheriff’s department to do the job, it would most assuredly not have mis-outed the anonymous author (or authors) of the NYTPicker [...] [...] the Jacksonville, Fla., sheriff’s department to do the job, it would most assuredly not have mis-outed the anonymous author (or authors) of the NYTPicker [...]

]]> By: Chuck Nelson http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/09/new-york-times-pulls-a-post-but-it-lives-on/comment-page-1/#comment-33003 Chuck Nelson Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:54:39 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=8284#comment-33003 "Of course, you can’t just make things on the Internet disappear." Or can you? Mashable reported yesterday that Yoko Ono told the UK's Sky News that Apple would make the Beatle's catalog available on iTunes today. But the Sky News story disappeared. "Unfortunately, shortly after the leak appeared, Sky News was reportedly told to cut the story and now even the Google Cache of the original has gone missing. Conspiracy theorists (and Beatles fans) are out there having a field day with this one." http://mashable.com/2009/09/08/beatles-itunes/ We'll know if the original report was right or wrong in a few hours. But the situation raises other questions about the permanence of news on the Internet. If a story turns out to be false, should it be removed or just corrected? If this story can disappear, what about others? And how does Google fit into this?` “Of course, you can’t just make things on the Internet disappear.”

Or can you? Mashable reported yesterday that Yoko Ono told the UK’s Sky News that Apple would make the Beatle’s catalog available on iTunes today. But the Sky News story disappeared.

“Unfortunately, shortly after the leak appeared, Sky News was reportedly told to cut the story and now even the Google Cache of the original has gone missing. Conspiracy theorists (and Beatles fans) are out there having a field day with this one.”

http://mashable.com/2009/09/08/beatles-itunes/

We’ll know if the original report was right or wrong in a few hours. But the situation raises other questions about the permanence of news on the Internet.

If a story turns out to be false, should it be removed or just corrected? If this story can disappear, what about others? And how does Google fit into this?`

]]> By: Nieman Journalism Lab: NYTimes’ pulled post lives on | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/09/new-york-times-pulls-a-post-but-it-lives-on/comment-page-1/#comment-32935 Nieman Journalism Lab: NYTimes’ pulled post lives on | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:44:55 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=8284#comment-32935 [...] Full post at this link… [...] [...] Full post at this link… [...]

]]> By: NYT uses anonymous source to expose anonymous blogger but gets it wrong | Hypercrit http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/09/new-york-times-pulls-a-post-but-it-lives-on/comment-page-1/#comment-32842 NYT uses anonymous source to expose anonymous blogger but gets it wrong | Hypercrit Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:05:50 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=8284#comment-32842 [...] This evening, the New York Times pub­lished a post claim­ing that the anony­mous blog­ger behind the NYTPicker blog was actu­ally David Blum, for­mer edi­tor of the Village Voice and sev­eral other New York pub­li­ca­tions. The times cred­ited the infor­ma­tion to an anony­mous source, accord­ing to cov­er­age at Nieman Journalism Lab. [...] [...] This evening, the New York Times pub­lished a post claim­ing that the anony­mous blog­ger behind the NYTPicker blog was actu­ally David Blum, for­mer edi­tor of the Village Voice and sev­eral other New York pub­li­ca­tions. The times cred­ited the infor­ma­tion to an anony­mous source, accord­ing to cov­er­age at Nieman Journalism Lab. [...]

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