{"id":31,"date":"2008-08-24T15:53:21","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T15:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2008-08-24T15:53:21","modified_gmt":"2008-08-24T15:53:21","slug":"the_dangers_of_news_on_the_web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"The Dangers of News on the Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the problems with news and information on the web is that it is very easy to change.&nbsp; History and comments can be erased with a simple highlighting and tap of the delete key.&nbsp; For example,&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/tom-blumer\/2008\/08\/24\/more-biden-wiki-wackiness-whole-year-disappears\">Newsbusters<\/a>&nbsp;is showing a Friday evening version of Joe Biden&#8217;s Wikipedia entry compared to its Sunday morning 11 am version.&nbsp; Somehow the year 2004 has disappeared.&nbsp; What happened in 2004?&nbsp; Joe Biden suggested John McCain as a running mate for John Kerry.&nbsp; Now when you think about it, I&#8217;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.&nbsp; Thank goodness that someone had the thought to copy the website before it was deleted.&nbsp; This sort of selective information editing really worries me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the problems with news and information on the web is that it is very easy to change.&nbsp; History and comments can be erased with a simple highlighting and tap of the delete key.&nbsp; For example,&nbsp; Newsbusters&nbsp;is showing a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}