As today I wanted to organize my thoughts from yesterday about child migrants and the NYTimes article about Obama’s meeting, I discovered unexpectedly that the sentences, I read yesterday, doesn’t exist any more. There was no warning. No evidence that someone has changed what was revealed from the meeting of Obama and Central American leaders. It felt like the reality of yesterday has died out.

Just take a look at some examples to understand what I mean.

You can read in the version which was online yesterday:

In the version which is online now, you read instead:

So the question is whether Mr. Hernandez said such words and if so, why it was deleted, or the reported made up from his imagination.

But this is not just about the president of Honduras. It seems that Obama has also changed his mind about what is his solution for the problem after the meeting. Just take a look:

What does these sentences reveals about Obama’s claim?

If you just think for some seconds, you would easily recognize that what Mr. Obama want is not to solve the problem but to erase the problem from the surface, by forcing the government of Central American countries to convince their people not to be desperate to flee to US, however they could.

But don’t worry Mr. Obama is a clever person and shouldn’t make such failure in the public, so the New York Times changed his idea into this:

Mr. Obama called the meeting with Presidents Juan Orlando Hernández of Honduras, Otto Pérez Molina of Guatemala and Salvador Sánchez Cerén of El Salvador to try to strike at the root causes of what he has called a humanitarian crisis on the border between Mexico and the United States.

May be the NYTimes reporter had guessed that you may not be happy with this, so they added:

In a joint statement by the four presidents issued by the White House after the meeting, the leaders pledged to “address the underlying causes of migration by reducing criminal activity and promoting greater social and economic opportunity.” But the White House did not make any announcements about further economic aid for Central America beyond what they have requested from Congress in recent weeks.

Maybe the first time that the NYTimes reporter wrote the article they were somewhat sleepy during the announcement of the statement by the four presidents because the is no sing of the words “social” and “economic opportunity” in the original version. But you know these people are working really hard to deliver the latest and most true news to us, please don’t get mad at them, thy deserve some sleep.

The issue of the waves of child migration from central America to USA is a very important issue but beyond that there is some open questions about the behavior of NYTimes in reporting this meeting to the public for example, why should this report get changed in such a dramatic way? Who is responsible for that?

At the end I think there is an important question that everyone who live in a democracy that depends on media as its fourth pillar, must asks themselves:

How could we prevent media from such behaviors in the future?