The Government Doesn't Need to Erase History. The Media Is Doing It for Them.

Problematic article making Twitter foam at the mouth? Just stick it in a memory hole and they'll forget all about it!by Katie HerzogBook-burning is sooo last century. Now, we just hit "unpublish."Videologia/GettyIn 1984, the George Orwell novel that has recently come to seem less like an allegory than a prediction, the protagonist spends his workday in a cubicle at the Ministry of Truth, an ironically named government agency devoted to obscuring the facts. His job there is to edit already publis