Headlines
What could the headline writer have been thinking when he wrote this one?
Senate Narrowly Backs Bush in Rejecting Debate on Increasing Time Between Deployments
By JEFF ZELENY and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
Published: July 12, 2007 WASHINGTON, July 11 — A solid majority of the Senate’s Republicans stood by President Bush’s Iraq policy on Wednesday and blocked consideration of a plan to give American troops more time between combat tours. But Democrats drew fresh Republican support for other proposals as they vigorously pushed to change the administration’s war strategy. . . .
The lede sentence gives you the headline
"Senate Republicans Stand By Bush's Iraq Policy, Block Debate on Changing Course"
The journalism in today's newspapers is atrocious.
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