Thursday, May 31, 2007

Vanishing quotes

I've noticed any number of instances where articles disappear from news and opinion sites. For example, guest pieces at Townhall.com have a way of vanishing after a time. The Anchoress notes this as well:

“I think it is a little hypocritical of Senator Clinton to call on me to repudiate a political figure’s comments when she never asked Senator Durbin to repudiate his comments. Senator Clinton might think about her propensity to allow outrageous statements from the other side that are far beyond political dialogue –insulting every Republican, comparing our soldiers to Nazis or Soviet gulag guards– and never protesting when she serves with them.”

Oh, and Rep Peter King of Long Island reminds us of one more ”Karl Rove deserves a medal,” King said. “Hillary Clinton, she’s the one who went to the floor of the Senate and implied President Bush knew about Sept. 11 and let it happen.”

Yesterday those two quotes were in an online story at newsday.com, but if you go back, today, you will not find them.

And in addition to these examples, we get occasional cases where CNN will change a story to one it wishes it had written at the time.

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