"It may sound self-important, but what appears in the newspaper really is the first draft of history. Of course it is sometimes flawed, sometimes incomplete, sometimes even unfair, but it's the best record we have. We're opening a dangerous door if we agree to go back and alter an old article because we no longer think it's newsworthy or we wish we hadn't said what we said or we have a different sense now of what's right or wrong."
Nicholas Goldberg at the Los Angeles Times argues against newspapers allowing "people to apply to have stories about their 'past embarrassments, mistakes or minor crimes' updated, anonymized or in some cases delisted from Google search results."
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