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November 18, 2007

The never-ending stories

The Times They Aren't a-Changin' explains itself this way:

It is the conceit of newspapers that each morning there are new stories to tell. Using the New York Times's own archives, unchangingtimes.com sets out to prove that everything news is old.

So the blog takes a current story from The Times and finds stories on the same theme in its archive. The result is a list of the mythic narratives of our culture.

This so reminds me of the feature that Spy magazine (I believe) used to run that rounded up all the tiny filler-ish NY Times stories headlined "Bus Plunge." [Tags: media newspapers narrative nytimes ]

Posted by D. Weinberger at November 18, 2007 10:10 AM

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