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Times'
lead article questioning govt’s ‘alliance against Russia’
vanishes, but URL remains
RT,
5
April, 2018
The
Times’ lead article from Wednesday, suggesting Theresa May is
struggling to hold together an alliance against Russia, has
disappeared from its website, with a completely new story under the
same URL replacing it.
So,
what could have motivated the paper to shelve the story?
The
original article, headlined ‘May battles to preserve alliance
against Russia’, looked at Prime Minister May’s handling of the
Skripal case after chief executive of the Defence Science and
Technology Laboratory at Porton Down, Gary Aitkenhead, gave an
explosive interview that revealed that the lab had not concluded
where the chemical weapon had come from – despite May’s
government insisting it was engineered in Russia.
May battles to preserve alliance against Russia
“Downing
Street mounted a damage-limitation exercise after Mr Aitkenhead’s
comments, saying that Theresa May drew on a comprehensive
intelligence assessment alongside the scientific analysis before
blaming Russia and insisting that the Porton Down chief had not
contradicted this,” the
original Times story read.
“However,
the interview with Sky News, which had been approved in advance by No
10, risks undermining the international coalition against Moscow.”
The
article also quoted German politician Armin Laschet, who questioned
Britain’s push to persuade its allies that Russia was to blame. “If
one forces nearly all NATO countries into solidarity, shouldn’t one
have certain evidence?” Laschet wrote on Twitter.
Wenn man fast alle NATO-Staaten zur Solidarität zwingt, sollte man dann nicht sichere Belege haben? Man kann zu Russland stehen wie man will, aber ich habe im Studium des Völkerrechts einen anderen Umgang der Staaten gelernt. twitter.com/faznet/status/…
As
a general policy, most news publications do not change URLs once
stories are published. This is to ensure that the article maintains
maximum traffic and is more ‘searchable’ online. Typically, if a
story needs to be pulled from a website, the article will be taken
down entirely – not replaced with a story on an entirely different
subject matter under the same URL.
The
content of the original article disappeared, only to be replaced with
a story headlined ‘Johnson under fire after Foreign Office deletes
Porton Down tweet’ – and yet the URL has stayed the same: ending
in ‘may-battles-to-preserve-alliance-against-russia’. In the
replacement story, there is no mention of Theresa May at all.
RT’s
Anastasia Churkina suggests it “changes the story and puts the
pressure back on Boris Johnson, and no longer questions whether or
not possibly Britain has been moving too quickly in this whole case.”
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