Historical revisionism
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John Smith
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Oh look, The Guardian have changed the headline and subhead on the story I linked to in my previous post. It's now:
Rupert Murdoch creates 'iNewspaper' - with the help of Steve Jobs News Corp reportedly set to launch iPad news publication exclusively via downloadwhich is certainly a more accurate - but less link-baiting - description of the story. That said, the piece itself doesn't appear to have been edited to reflect, this; as of midday on Monday 22nd November, the first paragraph of The Guardian piece reads:
Rupert Murdoch, head of the media giant News Corp, and Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, are preparing to unveil a new digital "newspaper" called the Daily at the end of this month, according to reports in the US media.which is still pushing things when you look at the original referenced article.
Whilst the article history does acknowledge a change has been made, it doesn't actually give any hint as to what the change was, it could just as easily have been some trivial typo fix.
Unfortunately for them though, their use of semantic URLs means that there's still visible evidence of their original intent - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/nov/21/ipad-newspaper-steve-jobs-rupert-murdoch is a bit of a stretch from the new headline.
BTW, I'm not claiming this change was down in any way to my writings - having seen how many hits I (don't) get, I'm not under any illusions about the readership of this blog :-(
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