Democracy for the Middle East
March 27, 2003Raines Shils For French
It used to be that when he slanted the news, New York Times editor Howell Raines would bury the uncomfortable facts in the final paragraph of the piece far away from the misleading headline. Today, the jaw-dropping first paragraph of Alan Cowell's article reads:
With French-American relations severely strained over the conflict in Iraq, Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin of France offered an olive branch to Washington today - but immediately declined to say explicitly who he hoped would win the war for Baghdad.
The headline directly above:
French Diplomat Offers Some Conciliatory Remarks
Prediction: more cancelled Times subscriptions.
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