The Strange Case of Missing Mass Media

For the second time in two months the UMass Boston newspaper has posted an article and within a very short time taken it down. This is a very strange journalism practice.

From Google searches using the original headlines, we see legacy images

1. WUMB plans launching of student Internet channels - The Mass Media

   www.umassmedia.com/.../wumb-plans-launching-of-student-internet-cha...‎
   For the first time in a long time, students will have the opportunity to run their ownprograms at the University's radio station, WUMB, it just won't be on the ...

1. 1. News for WUMB: UMass Boston's non-UMass ...

      The Massachusetts Daily Collegian

      1. WUMB: UMass Boston's non-UMass Boston radio station

         The Mass Media ‎- 1 day agoThe University of Massachusetts Boston's radio station, WUMB, has focused on folk and roots music since 1982. They have since gathered a ...
   The original URL of the first is/was http://www.umassmedia.com/features/wumb-umass-boston-s-non-umass-boston-radio-station/article_3cccc120-1354-11e3-a926-001a4bcf6878.htmland of the second is/was http://www.umassmedia.com/features/wumb-plans-launching-of-student-internet-channels/article_3cccc120-1354-11e3-a926-001a4bcf6878.html
   Perhaps "UMass Boston's Independent Student Newspaper" should change its name from
   

   ...to the MISSING MASS MEDIA.

   
   
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