Headline War Revisited: Who Was Right?

Yesterday, we posted totally dueling headlines from the NYT and WaPo about the G-8 climate change deal.

WaPo‘s headline read: “G-8 Leaders Reach Climate Deal”

NYT‘s headline read: “G-8 Nations Fail to Agree on Plan to Fight Climate Change”

It seems to me that this is a case of “glass half empty or glass half full.” Peter Baker’s piece for the NYT‘s approached the story by highlighting what the G-8 nations set out to accomplish but couldn’t. WaPo‘s Craig Whitlock and Michael Fletcher led with the fact that there was “a deal.”

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