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4. I have seen the report of this first day of talks with at least three different titles,
Fri Sep 13, 2013, 01:02 PM
Sep 2013

from "Kerry lost in translation" which when reading the article were implying that the relationship between the two men was decent, a title implying optimism, one saying that Kerry was tough. This is now the fourth title I read.

This is certainly a testimony to the power of editors who write titles. In a world where people often stop at the title, it is frustrating that one person can have this type of power.

As for the meeting (and putting aside my irritation with meeting Kissinger of all people, and doing that on the anniversary of the Chilean coup (may the our progressive government could talk to progressive foreign policy experts, once in a while), I think that, contrarily to what DU believes, we should avoid trusting every single report as if it was the truth. It is obviously a very polished set of events where every report is just an act of propaganda on both sides. I wished that DU understood this. This would avoid a lot of ridiculous indignation on all sides.

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