The Dangers of News on the Web

One of the problems with news and information on the web is that it is very easy to change.  History and comments can be erased with a simple highlighting and tap of the delete key.  For example,  Newsbusters is showing a Friday evening version of Joe Biden’s Wikipedia entry compared to its Sunday morning 11 am version.  Somehow the year 2004 has disappeared.  What happened in 2004?  Joe Biden suggested John McCain as a running mate for John Kerry.  Now when you think about it, I’m not sure which party is more damaged by that information, but to me, the interesting thing is that it has disappeared from the website.  Thank goodness that someone had the thought to copy the website before it was deleted.  This sort of selective information editing really worries me.