{"id":342,"date":"2006-12-22T15:14:40","date_gmt":"2006-12-22T22:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2006\/12\/22\/blacked-out-censorship-from-the-white-house\/"},"modified":"2009-03-17T06:54:45","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T13:54:45","slug":"blacked-out-censorship-from-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/blacked-out-censorship-from-the-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"blacked out censorship from the white house"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m still piecing it all together to be honest, but here’s how it goes so far:<\/p>\n

on Monday two long-time Mideast analysts blast the White House, accusing them of censoring parts of their text, an article they were writing for the OpEd section of the NYTimes;<\/p>\n

on Tuesday the NYTimes reports on this incident officially<\/a>;<\/p>\n

the authors, a married couple since 2003, are long-time analysts of the Middle East under multiple presidents, including Republican and Democrat; one of the authors, Flynt L. Leverett, previously worked for the CIA and the NSC;<\/p>\n

Today, the NYTimes published two opinion articles<\/a> by these authors, including the one with the blacked out text<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, what’s interesting here is how the blacked out text is compiled: rather than simply being a string of data, that is the amount of letters within the original text blacked out as a block of removed text, you can actually see the text broken down, with each letter replaced by a lowercase ‘x’:<\/p>\n

\"blacked<\/p>\n

Now I’m not saying that ‘xxx’ = ‘The’ or that ‘xxxxxxxxx’ = ‘terrorist’ but it is interesting that you can see the breakdown of the text by highlighting it by clicking+scrolling with your mouse. Of course there’s no guarantee that these xxxx’s are even real words, but that the possibility is there is intriguing nonetheless.<\/p>\n

[via Daily Dreamtime<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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