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The Washington Post had me utterly fooled with its choices in headlines for a story regarding the killing of a Hezbollah leader that had been targetted by the U.S.
The headline on the Web site has now been changed, but here’s how the email alert and Web headline first appeared.
These are perfectly ambiguous as to who killed whom, and I took them to mean that Hezbollah had killed a target of theirs, someone representing the United States.
Jim Harper / Jim is the Director of Information Policy Studies at The Cato Institute, the Editor of Web-based privacy think-tank Privacilla.org, and the Webmaster of WashingtonWatch.com. Prior to becoming a policy analyst, Jim served as counsel to committees in both the House and Senate.
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