Newspapers hit with a wave of requests to take down embarrassing archived stories – Poynter

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Newspapers hit with a wave of requests to take down embarrassing archived stories – Poynter

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via Poynter: http://www.poynter.org/2016/newspapers-hit-with-a-wave-of-requests-to-take-down-embarrassing-archived-stories/432585/

A remedy is less clear. Most newspapers have had a longstanding practice of removing published stories only under extraordinary circumstances. But does that still make sense in the digital era as the potential rises for damaging people’s reputations with long ago or out-of-context accounts of their misdeeds?