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Doesn't surprise me. NYT is known for the quick takes and quiet edits.

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• midasuni 3y ago
  Never wrong for long? Sadly consumers reward this behaviour.
• baz00 3y ago
  Sounds like the BBC. I was writing a script a few weeks back that polled BBC articles and does a git commit to a repo every time the text changes. One article had 6 edits within the first 20 minutes of it being published which changed the entire context of the thing. Then I lost interest in it.
  • lloydatkinson 3y ago
    That sounds really interesting and a reflection of the BBCs generally worsening journalism. Do you have the script and repo available publicly? It would be interesting.
    • baz00 3y ago
      I would be embarrassed to publish it in its current state if I’m honest as it was written when I was drunk, cynical and after a breakup. Please take the idea in concept and do a better job that I did!
      • lloydatkinson 3y ago
        I’m tempted! How did you store the content, as raw HTML or plain text? I imagine raw HTML would make automated diffs harder.
        • baz00 3y ago
          It was python so I used Beautiful Soup to scrape and extract just the text.
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