The Internet Is The Future But It Doesn't Know The Past: DANGEROUS

Newspapers and investigative journalism and even government reports are INVISIBLE on today's internet if they were created prior to the internet.

Individuals may chronicle bits and pieces, but if articles were not created in a digital format originally they are by and large not available on today's internet. So, there is no public vetting of past governmental policies and so, while there is a feeling that the public can access all pertinent information in our recent history, the truth is that prior to 2000-ish almost everybody got their information from current sources of the time which are mostly not assessable on today's internet except through paid accounts to encyclopedias, which STILL TODAY are not publicly available on the internet. With thanks to WIKIPEDIA we still don't have funding for a simple, formally vetted, freely available USA Encyclopedia.

The recent hoopla from right-wing talkers about our current jobs report is a perfect example of how the internet is lacking. Limbaugh etc. are saying in unison that President Obama has changed the formula for how the unemployment figures are calculated in order to make them look lower than they really are. Not only is there no reference point on the internet to prove this charge, BUT there is also no reference point for what I CLEARLY REMEMBER as being the point when the definition of this figure WAS CHANGED! It was during the Reagan administration that I read many articles in the New York Times and AP and other sources which clearly addressed the fact the the formal 'unemployment figure' from the federal accounting system HAD BEEN CHANGED so that henceforth, people who had run out of unemployment benefits and still didn't have a job were no longer counted amongst the UNEMPLOYED.

I railed against that then and I rail against it now, BUT THE INTERNET ISN'T HELPING HERE.

Can somebody please reference this point for me....Arthur?