I was looking up some sites at the
Wayback Machine and noticed that Fox News
blocks the crawler that archives websites. For those of you that aren't familiar with the site, it's a site that archives almost every site on the web back to 1996. All of the other news sites, like MSNBC and CNN allow archiving.
It leaves me wondering why they don't want the site archived. Maybe it has something to do with there tendencies to publish fake articles:
On October 1, blogger and journalist Joshua Micah Marshall noted a story on the Fox News Channel's website (since removed, archive here) that contained several fabricated quotes attributed to Senator John Kerry. Soon after, the story was removed from Fox's website.
Marshall spoke to a Fox News representative about the incident, and he said that "Carl [Cameron] made a stupid mistake which he regrets. And he has been reprimanded for his lapse in judgment. It was a poor attempt at humor."
What else is on the site that they don't want in the public archive?