So what if a story or bit of information has to be retracted by law?
I second my sibling, newspapers have no interest in transparency.
I second my sibling, newspapers have no interest in transparency.
Then the news agency issues a retraction. It's already the case that the Internet will not forget, whether via the Internet Archive or http://www.newsdiffs.org/ .
Both those sites are also subject to laws and can easily retract information if necessary.
In much the same way data can be retracted from printed copies of newspapers that already have widely circulated copies in both personal and institutional/library hands: by publishing a subsequent retraction later in the chain, like any other change.
I disagree, I mean... the whole point of journalism is to get to the truth -- in other words, to make an event transparent.