Andreas Moritz changed a link once it was shown that he is only interested in swindling people. He did this to prevent anyone from seeing the details of his scam, but it didn’t work since he didn’t actually delete said details. And then I copy and pasted everything. Well, the Kennebec Journal, my local paper, may be doing something similar.
The paper isn’t running any major scam like Moritz, but it does seem to be acting just as dishonestly. I made a post about a stupendously bad article it ran that talked about ghost hunters in a central Maine town. It actually made the front page of the paper. Incredible, I know.
I had left a comment on the article saying just how bad it was, so I went back to check it. But wait. It isn’t there. In fact, I can’t seem to find it anywhere. Go ahead. Check the link that once worked. Search the website for “Readfield Historical Society” or “paranormal”. An older article will show up, but not this most recent one.
It’s possible the article is just somewhere really strange on the KJ’s site. If it is, that speaks to what an amateur operation this new ownership is running. But I can’t find it anywhere. It appears the KJ has deleted the article, hopefully out of embarrassment. I would like to think FTSOS was the embarrassing factor, but there’s no way to really know. Maybe a whole slew of comments after mine flooded the article, prompting a number of red faces in the tech and editing room.
One can hope.
Update: Since the creation of this post, the KJ has restored the link. Funny that.
Filed under: Local, Pure bullshit | Tagged: Kennebec Journal, Paranormal, Readfield Historical Society |
For the Sake of Science 
I always have problems finding a specific article. Not just with the KJ but with the NYT as well and all the major network news websites.
I probably don’t understand how they are maintaining the articles, but who knows.
Shouldn’t you be glad it made the front page? After all that means there was likely no bigger news, Like a school bus full of children smashing into a nursing home, city hall collapsing or maybe the sighting of a pesky extinction event sized rock headed right for Chelsea, Maine.
They’ve brought the link back without explanation.
I’ve never heard it said said web sites were an exact science. Some have a mind of their own.