Lame Gray Lady: NYT Scrubs Major Portion of Original Obama-Olympics Article [FR mentioned]

NewsBusters ^ | October 4, 2009 | Tom Blumer

[50mm]

Those who read the New York Times's coverage of the unsuccessful results of Barack and Michelle Obama's attempt to seal the 2016 Summer Olympics bid for Chicago on Friday afternoon ('For Obama, an Unsuccessful Campaign") might want to read it again.

If it doesn't seem the same, it's because it isn't.

Blogger Weasel Zippers (HT Hot Air Headlines via Instapundit) caught the Times committing a major scrub of the story. But it's really worse than that.

An excerpt of the item's first five paragraphs posted at FreeRepublic at 4:44 Eastern Time on October 2 shows that the article was apparently originally published under the same title with Peter Baker's byline Friday sometime Friday afternoon.

Excerpt

NYT: For Obama, An Unsuccessful Campaign ["He Could Not Even Muster The Silver Or Bronze"]

[pillut48]

Exactly! I emailed that company Geoeye (they did that big high res poster of the crowd from YOU LIE!'s inauguration) asking if they would be publishing a pic of DC from that day and actually got an email back. Said, oh, shucky darn, on Sept. 12th we didn't have the satellite camera pointed anywhere near Washington D.C., darn the luck! Yeah, right. The most important city in the world, you'd think they'd have 24/7 coverage.

Yet, surprisingly, they DID cover a UN event in Paris featured on their website. Things that make you go hmmm....

[SuperLuminal]

bttt

[tcrlaf]

The NY Times Ministry of Truth:

Original article deemed MalReported BadThought Untruth By MiniTru. RedCap is ordered to UnTruth the Malreported parts in the intrests of continued GoodThink and BellyFeel of the Proles.

Memory Hole will remove Badthought insuring Doubleplus Goodthought. Thought Police will insure no Crimethought can be found on the Internet.

[wardaddy]

what a fop...look at his hands and manicured nails

geezz

no wonder he hates guns and straight men

[tcrlaf]

They don’t call the New York Times Editorial Board “The Gay Mafia” for nothing, you know...

[Freedom2specul8]

Bookmarked for emailing!

[bustinchops]

There really is no point in even mentioning this yellow propaganda rag ever again. There have just been too many of these kinds of events involving the NYT. They should simply be knocked off the radar scopes. The NYT is full of back-bencher hacks that have no business calling themselves “journalists.” The best thing to do is to forget about them altogether.

[jersey117]

I wonder if they’re going to scrap the SNL clip as well.

[Conservative_Rob]

As usual their attitude is to deny reality, evade the consequences, because of one or two things. They have every confidence that the 2010 elections can be rigged in their favor...

Ding, ding, ding.

We have a winner. They believe that they can still count on Acorn (one of the branches or a renamed makeover), SEIU, and their other thugs to manipulate the ballots to crete their desired outcome.

I have 0 (zero) confidence in any electoral process that affects federal elections. Just like the politicians skimming a million here or a milltion there off of the trillions in federal spending (i.e. Charlie Rangel), millions of votes can easily be manufactured in the Democrat controlled hell holes we call cities in this country.

[cvq3842]

If this isn’t Orwellian, I don’t know what is.

[stephenjohnbanker]

B U M P

[markomalley]

Yes, and the copyright restrictions put on Free Republic and other sites don't allow us to archive the original articles. Articles can be changed and we can't prove that they were changed because of threats of future lawsuits.

You should download and install PDF Creator. Open source software which allows you to create PDFs from web pages, word docs or whatever (it works just like a printer driver).

That, used with sites such as docstoc or Wikileaks can make sure that subtle changes like reported in this article are exposed to their fullest extent!

[RDTF]

this is why we do what we do here!

[b4its2late]

The Times must’ve gotten a call.........

[nutmeg]

Steelfish's post #8:

As the one who first posted this article in Free Republic, I am stunned and appalled. If there was ever a doubt of the NYT being part of the Obama-run state media, this is proof positive.

I wish Rush, Beck, Hannity will expose this to the fullest. Please request moderator to post this as part of the sidebar. The First Amendment’s Freedom of the Press being destroyed by the Press.

Great work, Steelfish!

[ExTexasRedhead]

Even more proof that the Czaristas think the American people are STUPID!!!

[KansasGirl]

The Obama Administration proves once again what a bunch of crybabies they are. I read the NYT original article and it was still a major suck-up to Obama (and took swipes at Bush). Apparently, not enough to suit Obama though.

[CDB]

Yikes.

A look at the new Stalinist airbrushing: Re-invent the past.

[Political Junkie Too]

I have to think there is a major copyright “fair use” exception lurking in there... Therefore, web sites like FreeRepublic that post and comment on the news are actually performing an important public service under the electronic model by capturing “before” versions and reporting on the effort of some news sources to obscure the record.

That raises an interesting question: If the original news source changes the on-line only copy of a story such that the original is not recognizable, then does it continue to "own" the rights to it? How do they claim "fair use" of a story they don't even recognize as theirs?

-PJ

[Political Junkie Too]

I just asked this question as a reply to another post: If the original news source changes the on-line only copy of a story such that the original is not recognizable, then does it continue to "own" the rights to it? How do they claim "fair use" of a story they don't even recognize as theirs anymore?

-PJ