Comments on: Altering a Newspaper’s Archives? http://www.audioactivism.org/2005/02/04/altering-a-newspapers-archives/ Metadata about *Media* Activism Sat, 05 May 2007 06:45:03 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.audioactivism.org/2005/02/04/altering-a-newspapers-archives/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.audioactivism.org/?p=76#comment-29 Newspapers faced this in their own pages in the 30s when there sometimes new editions of the paper every hour, so that newsboys could hawk the latest fact or spin on a story. The papers would replate the front page, and maybe the back page where the jump was. This brought about the question for librarians, which version of that day's paper was the "official" one--the "newspaper of record" (apologies to the former gray lady)--and how many lies masqueraded as truth in the intervening editions between the first one and the last. Newspapers faced this in their own pages in the 30s when there sometimes new editions of the paper every hour, so that newsboys could hawk the latest fact or spin on a story. The papers would replate the front page, and maybe the back page where the jump was.

This brought about the question for librarians, which version of that day’s paper was the “official” one–the “newspaper of record” (apologies to the former gray lady)–and how many lies masqueraded as truth in the intervening editions between the first one and the last.

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