{"id":276,"date":"2005-12-30T00:44:48","date_gmt":"2005-12-30T04:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2005\/12\/30\/the-blurring-of-official-record-lines\/"},"modified":"2005-12-30T00:44:48","modified_gmt":"2005-12-30T04:44:48","slug":"the-blurring-of-official-record-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2005\/12\/30\/the-blurring-of-official-record-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"The blurring of &#8220;official record&#8221; lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1173'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The traditional lines of &#8216;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">official records<\/span>&#8216;<br \/>\nwhich are available for public perusal and archived forever, as<br \/>\ndistinct from events that are observed in person and passed on by word<br \/>\nof mouth, have become much <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">blurred<\/span><br \/>\nwith recent improvements in recording devices, distribution\/storage<br \/>\nmethods, and penetration of same.&nbsp; It is among other things a<br \/>\ntestament to increasingly effective archiving that the decision to<br \/>\nstrike from the record Representative <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jean Schmidt<\/span>(R-Ohio)<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8216;s<\/span> words [Directed at Rep. <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Murtha<\/span>], at the end of this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canofun.com\/blog\/videos\/schmidtrepublicanstuntnov1805.wmv\">C-SPAN video segment from<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> <\/span>November 18<\/a>, is largely <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">moot<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Without objection, the gentlelady&#8217;s words will be withdrawn<\/span>&#8220;&#8230;<br \/>\nbut withdrawn from what?&nbsp; from the public record that is<br \/>\nthoroughly and reliably archived, but hard to find online; not from the<br \/>\nunofficial, widely-distributed public record, less consistent but much<br \/>\neasier to find.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.canofun.com\/blog\/videos\/schmidtrepublicanstuntnov1805.wmv'>The blurring of &#8220;official record&#8221; lines &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The traditional lines of &#8216;official records&#8216; which are available for public perusal and archived forever, as distinct from events that are observed in person and passed on by word of mouth, have become much blurred with recent improvements in recording devices, distribution\/storage methods, and penetration of same.&nbsp; It is among other things a testament to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-demand"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-4s","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}