Joy Ann Reid is recently in hot water for lying about hackers inserting homophobic blog posts in to the archive.org record of her old blog. She has now requested that archive.org stop serving archives of this blog.
I wonder how frequently mainstream media scrubs old version of stories from archive sites.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/claims-by-joy-reids-cybersecur...
>"We are guided by a newsroom policy that says it is inappropriate to remove content from our Website. If a report is inaccurate, we will correct it and state why it has been altered. If relevant new information emerges, we will update or do a follow-up story. But our content is a matter of public record and is part of our contract with our audience. To simply remove it from the archive diminishes transparency and trust and, in effect, erases history. This is not a practice engaged in by credible news organizations or in line with ethical journalism."
[1] - http://ethics.npr.org/memos-from-memmott/how-to-explain-why-...
Doesn't mean we should throw the baby out with the bathwater, but we should hold journalists to a high standard - journalistic standards have weakened in the past decade with the rise of clickbait and promoting partisan editorials as news.
If you can’t, don’t pretend to.
Don't erase your mistakes - own up to them.