Debunked - NYT's deletion of the Norwegian pedophile ring article

Debunked - NYT's deletion of the Norwegian pedophile ring article (pizzagate)

submitted 7.9 years ago by militant

According to the senior editor of standards at The New York Times, some AP wire stories are only live on their site for 24 hours. They basically have a running feed of AP stories on the site that editors rarely pay attention to and are cycled out without being archived.

When an AP article on The Times has “aponline” in the URL(like it does in the Norway piece), it is not archived on their websites.

ABC News and The Washington Post have not returned a request for comment by publication time, but they most likely have similar unsexy answers to the deletion.

Sorry conspiracy theorists, but you’ll have to look for globalist pedophile cover ups elsewhere.

https://heatst.com/politics/deleted-article-about-a-norwegian-pedophile-ring-ignites-conspiracy-theories/

While it's true that almost all of these articles are deleted after a while, the thing is, when you Google this: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/

The very first result (as of now) is an article from June and it's still online: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/06/14/science/14obs-antikythera.html

There is also this article from May which is still online: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/05/29/us/ap-us-severe-weather.html

So unless I'm missing something the deletion of these articles doesn't look like an automated process.

We shouldn't claim that is was censorship because there was nothing unusual with the deletion, clearly, but it's not a rule either.

This concept of "temporary articles" is new to me and sounds strange, though. Does the media which still have the articles up are paying for an unlimited licence?

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zoltan907 7.8 years ago

This AP article from 1982 is still on the site: http://www.nytimes.com/1982/07/27/nyregion/boy-sex-rings-said-to-peddle-client-data-to-foreign-agents.html.

Were licensing agreements different in 1982?

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DeckoGecko 7.9 years ago

If you look at the Independent article and scroll down to the comments you'll see a pretty well explain reason that the independent still has the story up and the others don't in response to my comment [made me look a right dick but oh well].. doesn't explain the google censorship though cuz i couldn't find the independent article on Google and had to use duckduckgo...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/norway-paedophile-ring-police-arrest-51-men-a7432441.html

actually,,, rereading the comments it looks like some people have chipped in some insightful stuff.. feeling a little less like a dick now. But not gonna post in the comments again lol!!!

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militant 7.8 years ago

"you are a bot or part of the 'russian' disinformation armada"

Haha, and he called you a conspiracy theorist just before that, that's lovely. He has a point about the non-deletion of that article by The Independent, though.

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DeckoGecko 7.8 years ago

lol!!

yeah,, he had a point i guess ,,, wrapped in a bunch of condescending self righteousness.

right,,off to recharge me batteries,,, Moscow issued energizer's are a bit shite ;)

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tjarco 7.9 years ago

I have no idea, what to make of this...

What is an AP wire story? - Does this mean that newspapers just copy eachothers content without people redacting or verifying?
Is Mr. Hicks source really someone from the NY?
@militant - I don't understand your argument that it doesn't look automated, could you elaborate?

asked because of relevance to https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1482030

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militant 7.8 years ago

About the source, yes I think so.

I meant that it's likely not a software program or whatever which automatically delete these articles after X days online because a certain percentage of them (more than what I thought) are still there, even years later.

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P8rtsUnkn0wn 7.8 years ago

I can answer the first question...

The AP is the Associated Press. They provide articles to a ton of news organizations (paper, tv, radio, etc.)

So yes, news organizations are sharing the same articles/reports. Because it's the AP, authenticity or truthfulness aren't questioned.

Go check your local paper and look at the writers for each article, it'll say if it's AP.

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SpikyAube 7.9 years ago

In the UK only one mainstream news site covered that story. The BBC mentions it in the last sentence of an article about a single Norwegian man who was found guilty of sending money to a family in the Philippines in return for them filming the abuse of their children for him.

Strange how the story about that one guy was deemed more important than the story about the huge paedophile ring involving Norwegian politicians etc.

That article from May is from May 2015, by the way. There are loads of aponline articles from ages ago. Also, it seems as though the Norway story was deleted after only 1 or 2 days? When other stories seem to stay up for 2 weeks?

But maybe they weren't actually censoring it and the articles did just automatically delete. Which is a good thing, because it means it's not as bad as feared, hopefully. I still think it's weird they wouldn't cover that story anyway, seeing as it's quite a big story and involves people in the US? The main problem though is not that they have ignored Norway, but that they have lied about the citizen investigation into pedophiles in all levels of US government and have made out that it's some crazy made up story when they should be investigating it like proper journalists who have integrity and honesty at the heart of their work.

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militant 7.8 years ago

Good points.

I think they manually delete the articles though, or else their program is really bad at doing so.

In France, no media at all reported the story (Norwegian ring - "Operation Darkroom"). On the other hand several media from all around the globe published articles about the "Operation Daylight" a few weeks before that, and no UK/US media reported the story apparently. Not sure why.

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Massive-European-Online-Child-Abuse-Network-Exposed-20160825-0001.html