The late Ed Koch, the irascible and highly entertaining former mayor of New York City, once asked this question: “Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That’s not history, that’s psychiatry.” It is also a form of ex post facto censorship, historical revisionism by another name.
Ron Martz: Should news outlets seek to erase history?
By scrubbing stories from websites, media organizations head down a slippery slope
