Down The Memory Hole Again

I just don't think it's acceptable for the Washington Post to publish something online by a staff writer, rewrite it and use the same link for the revision without any record of the original.

Evidently the Post disagrees.

As I noted yesterday,  a story by Michael Shear at washingtonpost.com about WUSA's Peggy Fox, George Allen and the latter's Jewish ancestry included the following quote of Fox:

...It was just a question about a fact. He's attacking the media. If you don't like the question, attack the media."

But today you'll just have to take my word for it, because the Post has erased the record. Imagine if a politician tried to do that. The exact same link for yesterday's online file now connects to the expanded print-edition story on A1, Allen Says He Embraces His Jewish Ancestry.  In the revised story, Fox is quoted merely as saying she learned about Allen's background from The Forward (a Jewish publication) and "thought it was fair game."

You can find the old headline in the Post archives, Sen. Allen Claims Jewish Roots, and yesterday's date, but it's a fictional entry--it leads to the Sept. 20 A1 story.

This is how things are done at the Post.

Bonus points for Shear writing today The question about Allen's religion and his delayed response to it are the latest twists in a bizarre Senate campaign that has been dominated for five weeks by Allen's "macaca" comment and more recently by allegations that Webb demeaned military women in an article written 27 years ago.

Nice passive work there, "dominated for five weeks by Allen's 'maccaca' comment" when this has largely been a full-time production of the Post's flood-the-maccaca-zone coverage. How... innocent to  describe a campaign that includes a gaffe, an apparently ineffective ad and resentment regarding a hostile question about your own mother as "bizarre."

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