The Senate's oldest member has just turned 46.
Seem strange? That's because it happened 45 years ago. But The Washington Post published the story online yesterday afternoon.
"Sen. Robert C. Byrd, (D-W.Va.), on his 46 birthday yesterday, announced he will seek a second term," the Post piece dated June 30 said. The story continues:
Byrd, who si [sic] chairman of the Senate District Appropriation subcommittee, was elected to the Senate in 1958. Before that he served three terms in the Senate.
His only announced opponent is William F. Champe of Culloden, W.Va., an employee in the International Nickel Co.'s research department in Huntington. Champe, 40, holds degrees from Marshall and West Virginia Universities. This is his first bid for elective office.
Byrd is actually 91, and has served in the Senate for more than half a century, and is the longest-serving senator in the chamber's history. He is known for his deliberative and extended soliloquies on the constitution.
Additionally, his birthday is in January. The original story ran Jan. 16, 1964.
The Post isn't alone in having old articles resurface. Last September, a seven-year-old story about United Airlines parent company filing for bankruptcy sent the company's stock price tanking after it was reposted online.
-John Byrne
what is the point of a 45 year old article on senator byrd?
And for this they fired Froomkin.
Due to cutbacks, the news media is printing reruns of old news stories as staff cuts take their toll. Even ghost articles pre-written by the Pentagon, drug companies, oil companies and defense companies and presented as actual news are becoming too expensive to fill white space. By adopting techniques from the entertainment industry including rerunning old material which is already owned, the print media hopes to remain competitive with online sources.
Does anyone read Philip K DICK? He wrote a story about the NYtimes being automated and printed it's own news robotically from an underground bunker. The people still believed what they read!!
Come on. It wasn't that slow of a news day ...
I used to get up at 4:00 am every morning to deliver about 100 copies of The Washington Post to my neighborhood. In 1964. I was twelve years old.
WaPo's obituary is long overdue.
And no mention of Israels attack on a paeceful boat in international waters and their capture of a former United States Congress Person. Nothing bad Israel does gets reported in the zionist controlled US media!
this just in: Lindberg crosses the Atlantic!
This is the kind of cutting edge journalism that wingnut welfare delivers.
And they wonder why print media is doomed? Imagine cutting a tree for that.
So...the Post is plagarizing...THEMSELVES? I know the quality of journalism there has been falling off the cliff, but holy crap!
This is Ridiculous.
Term Limits of 2/ 4year terms for Senators,and Congressmen!!!
Get rid of these Fat Slob Hind-Titters!!!
They actually pushed 16 articles from between 1953 and 2003 to their politics section yesterday, all featuring Byrd. They came up in my WaPo politics feed this morning.
WaPo giving themselves the Byrd?
It's the old time machine again. The Washington Post is suffering from what nearly all of them suffer from. The inability to fact check. To even bother. This seemingly small boo boo, is indicative of how lame they are. This is the reason newspapers are failing. They used to be at the heart of a flourishing, strong democracy. But our democracy no longer flourishes, because objective, honest news reporting is long gone.
We are the United Corporation of America. And the news outlets are owned by the corporations who have a vested, financial interest in keeping the population as ignorant and unaware as possible. Sorry about the rant.
As of 6 PM EST, they are now running one from 1989 when you click on the link above???!!! Only 20 years away. They are gradually catching up to the present.
Byrd to Remain a Senate Power
W. Virginian Takes on Two Key Posts After Retiring as Majority Leader
Helen Dewar
Tuesday, January 17, 1989; 12:00 AM
With one hand on the Senate's gavel and the other on its purse strings, Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) is setting out to prove there is life after 12 years as Senate Democratic leader.
When the 70-year-old Byrd stepped down as majority leader last month, handing the reins to Sen. George J. Mitchell (D-Maine), word went out that an era had ended. To a large extent it had.
But, from the rostrum where he plans to sit as president pro tempore of the Senate to the ornate chambers in which he will preside over the powerful Appropriations Committee, Byrd is positioned to continue wielding power in the close-to-the-vest, idiosyncratic style that has made him one of the most enduring curiosities of the U.S. political landscape.
Byrd and his staff already have settled into the appropriations panel's spacious suite on the first floor of the Capitol, and he rarely left the presiding officer's chair during the two days the Senate was in session last week to mark the opening of the 101st Congress...
Has it occured to anyone that WPO might have been gathering up old clippings in preparation for a Byrd obituary? He is 91 and was just taken to the hospital seriously ill. That of course does not exuse the sloppiness of an inferior newspaper,
Nope, it doesn't excuse this type of malfeasance.
As was posted above, this waste of trees is the sad result of lack of caring.
Journalism was once an art.
It is now a commodity.
Poorly practiced by the main stream (trad med) tree killers.
Screw 'em.
Electons are easier to waste/
I have a journalism degree and I probably could never "qualify" to work at the Washington Post. Somehow this gives me a tingly feeling. I like the Washington Post, but this is beyond careless. This is 45 year old slop.
Their editor is either drunk or not obsessive compulsive and needs meds to make he/she that way.
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