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To: Lane3 who wrote (98297)	2/2/2005 4:01:27 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793972

the point of what I posted: You are off the point of what was the bone of contention. Which is that the Times changes headlines when they they want to change the slant of the online article. They are well aware that 50% of their audience never reads beyond the headline. So the slant of it controls the message. They use this in the dead tree version to frame the story their way. I have posted example after example of this. In the online edition Althouse was pointing out that she had caught them changing the headline on several stories. The rebuttal was that the online Times is always "changing stories and headlines," which sets up a strawman to beat. Althouse is saying that changing the headline on an old story is an attempt to change the slant. She is right. Reading the NYT can be like reading PRAVDA in the old days. At times, you need a degree in Kremlinology to understand what they are doing. :>)