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Down the memory hole

posted by Zed on November 14 2003 21:43

NY Times story on The Memory Hole

In George Orwell’s “1984,” documents deemed embarrassing to the State were tossed down a memory hole, a disposal chute in the Ministry of Truth that led to enormous furnaces. Taking a cue from the novel, Russ Kick, a journalist and author, established www.thememoryhole.org, a Web site dedicated to saving official documents from oblivion and posting them online.

Check out deletions like the character cut from Fantasia , ‘Reasons not to invade Iraq’ by Bush Sr. (which Time removed from their website), or an MSNBC article calling Bush on a lie that quietly disappeared after a few hours.

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