If this is a trend that becomes prevalent, I wonder if it might not be a good idea to require that newspapers print out at least a few hard copies of every edition for the Library of Congress, the archives or whatever...Maybe even each time they make the slightest change. After all, re-positioning a comma can change the whole meaning of a passage.
Seems to me that otherwise we have little protection against a 1984-ish infinitely flexible history...In the hands of Bush, Cheney, et alia, it's already a little too elastic.
Maybe there's some obvious technical solution that I simply don't see or know about. But I seek re-assurance.
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