[free-sklyarov] Yahoo! News modifications

[Doug McNaught]

Peter Boerboom <pboerboom at Dialpad.com> writes:

> Apparently, Yahoo's content management system was breached by an outsider
> recently. An article about Sklyarov was changed as described below.

[...]
> The modified story warned sardonically that Sklyarov's work raised "the
> haunting specter of inner-city minorities with unrestricted access to
> literature, and through literature, hope."
> 
> The text went on to report that Attorney General John Ashcroft held a press
> conference about the case before "cheering hordes", and incorrectly quoted
> Ashcroft as saying, "They shall not overcome. Whoever told them that the
> truth shall set them free was obviously and grossly unfamiliar with federal
> law." It's more difficult to get into their advertising reporting statistics
> than their news production tools. 

I don't condone it, but the perpetrator seems to have a good sense of
irony and some literary talent.  ;)

-Doug
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