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Yes, there's a lot of good examples. Here's one: https://nypost.com/2020/06/02/new-york-times-changes-headline-following-pressure-from-democrats/ https://nypos
by ipsum2 6y ago
Yes, there's a lot of good examples.
Here's one: https://nypost.com/2020/06/02/new-york-times-changes-headline-following-pressure-from-democrats/ https://nypost.com/2020/06/02/new-york-times-changes-headlin...
Before: “As Chaos Spreads, Trump Vows to ‘End It Now"
Edited: "Trump Threatens to Send Troops into States"
Another one:
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/489013-trump-rips-ny-times-for-altering-coronavirus-negotiations-headline-to-satisfy https://thehill.com/homenews/media/489013-trump-rips-ny-time...
Before: "Democrats Block Action on $1.8 Trillion Stimulus"
After: "Democrats Block Action on Stimulus Plans, Seeking Worker Protections"
And changed yet again: "Partisan Divide Threatens Deal on Rescue Bill"
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200413/11142144293/lessig-withdraws-clickbait-defamation-lawsuit-against-ny-times-after-changed-headline.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200413/11142144293/lessi...
Before: "A Harvard Professor Doubles Down: If You Take Epstein's Money, Do It in Secret"
After: "What Are the Ethics of Taking Tainted Funds?"
To be fair, its not only the NYTimes that does this. One that was circulating around Twitter yesterday was: "How I got COVID after taking the vaccine" with a footnote in the story: "Author did not get COVID". The headline was changed to "Why could you still get COVID-19 after receiving a vaccine?"
- drak0n1c 6y agoNewsDiffs is a scraper that did this kind of automatic headline change tracking, but it hasn't been updated in a while. https://github.com/ecprice/newsdiffs https://github.com/ecprice/newsdiffs This alternative looks more recent https://github.com/DocNow/diffengine https://github.com/DocNow/diffengine
- CyanBird 6y agoThe "Editing TheGrayLady" twitter account is the updated version that is still working https://twitter.com/nyt_diff https://twitter.com/nyt_diff