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US Newspapers Are Deleting Old Crime Stories, Offering Subjects the 'Right to be Forgotten'

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Summary
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69% Informative

Cleveland.com editor-in-chief Chris Quinn is advocating that newspapers remove old stories regarding crimes or misdemeanors that have been atoned for.

The concept has since spread to the Boston Globe , the Atlanta Journal-Constitution , the Bangor Daily News in Maine , the Oregonian , and New Jersey’s NJ.com .

Google paid Quinn and his team $ 200,000 to proactively search their archives of 1.4 million content pieces and delete stories.

VR Score

61

Informative language

53

Neutral language

35

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

49

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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