A Note About Archiving and the Media (pizzagate)

submitted ago by Mrs_Ogynist01

I'm just reiterating the importance of archiving articles before posting a link.

This is relevant to Pizzagate because of the proven (Savile) cover up of Pedophile rings by mainstream media (BBC.)

Yesterday, a voater posted this https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1815208 in reference to Erin Moran's death. Shortly after the post, her autopsy report was released and Fox changed their story. Some people were very nasty to the OP because they thought the post was deceiving.

If you did not already know this, online media can and do change articles continuously without adding an "editor's note" citing the revisions. There is no way to view the original article without having an archived version. The only way that I've found to notice a change, is if they change the title, the original title will be in the URL.

EXAMPLE from yesterday's article from FOX:

Original headline can be seen in the URL: https://www.google.com/amp/www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/04/24/erin-morans-final-days-fellow-former-child-stars-were-trying-to-help.amp.html

"Erin Morans Final Days - Fellow Former Child Stars Were Trying To Help"

Edited Headline: "Erin Moran 'likely died' of complications of stage 4 cancer, autopsy reveals"

I don't think in this instance that Fox was trying to be deceptive, but it's a good lesson on how easy it is for MSM to change things without us noticing.

So, the moral of this post (which I'm also guilty of not doing) is use ARCHIVE.IS

(Also, calm down and quit being so dang paranoid)

EDIT: I found the archive of the original story - http://archive.is/veksn (you can be vindicated @Godwillwin)

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fartyshorts ago

I'll go through and double-archive all the links. Also, I guess it doesn't hurt to repeat this:

You can make bookmarklets for archive.org and archive.is to instantly archive the page you are currently viewing. Activate your bookmarks toolbar if you haven't already, go to archive.is and click-and-drag the bookmarklet to your toolbar. Click it to archive.

Make a new bookmark and enter the following as the adress/URL:

javascript:void(open('http://web.archive.org/save/'+(document.location)))

That is the bookmarklet for archive.org. One-click archival! I use both on almost every link I click on on this site.

samhara ago

I 'm failing to figure out how to put the javascript on my toolbar.

Oh that's right, my browser doesn't use Java? !

fartyshorts ago

Java is not the same thing as Javascript. You enter it by creating a new bookmark, this is how it looks in Firefox vs. Chrome:

https://imgoat.com/uploads/ab3238922b/13949.png

https://imgoat.com/uploads/ab3238922b/13950.png

BTW: There is a third archival service called "WebCite", which you can bookmarklet like this:

javascript:void(location.href='http://www.webcitation.org/archive?url='+encodeURIComponent(document.location))

But then you have to enter meta data manually, so it's not a one-click service.