Daily Archives: May 24, 2012

Chicago’s police riot and Reuters’ memory hole

By Joel Thurtell George Orwell explained how history could be obliterated — state-appointed historians in his novel, 1984, would simply clip offending facts out of news reports and drop them down the “memory hole.” Reuters, a self-styled news service, had … Continue reading

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