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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SpikyAube 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.
militant 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