User blog comment:ReverseZoom101/Something about Episode 1 of The Flash: Season 5 doesn't sit right.../@comment-27700324-20181019153921

When it comes to time travel, the show uses some fiction along with theories from science fact for its time travel. One part from fiction is the concept of objects being overriten in time. Such as in Back to the Future where Marty was dissapearing from that photo and now his parents just took some empty photo of their lawn. However unlike with Back to the Future, this makes slightly more sense as the things destined to happen in the future have not changed. So no change in the article happens. After all, the speed force shielded Eobard from being erased from existence because it would cause a paradox. Now he still goes back in time to kill Nora Allen, having Barry dissapear with him. Then something keeps Barry gone after that we still don't know about and none of what Barry's friends have done in the ten years before 2024 will change that. It is too far off to be overriten. So yeah, the newspaper still being there makes sense.

Though i agree the second one is useless. Why did Iris write an article about that? My guess is her newspaper is dying out and she is desperate for stories. That or she made that one just for Nora to send to Barry in the past and didn't actually post it to the masses.