To me, two things are interesting in this post. First, even though urban legends have been documented and debunked for years, people still get suckered by them. Second, using photographs of newspaper pages is an increasingly rare form of documenting past events. While you can forge a newspaper page, it is more complicated than tweaking some HTML.
Yes, you are right, but theoretically, it's easier to prove the forgery if you have copies of the newspaper stored in multiple places. I think we need multiple archives of newspaper articles stored in an archival medium. We can't trust crypto signatures to be future-proof.
