New, Improved, Instant, Revisionism... No Waiting, No Mess: Rewriting History As it Happens (or doesn't) ...

If a tree falls in the forest and everyone hears it, but then you erase the tree, along with any branches and leaves, did it ever make a sound?  If a tirade, that showed how despotic you are, fell on an audience, and everyone heard it, but it was erased from the transcript, did it ever occur?