Reply #73: Not *exactly* true. They posted three different headlines. [View All]

CNN often does this -- as a story develops, they update what they had already written, and change the headline to reflect developments.

First,they reported that * was displeased...I posted the headline of this article to another thread.

Second, they reported that * was threatening to reject the deal ALLEGEDLY because of Clinton's speech. I think someone else posted this article to start a new thread.

Third, they reported that an agreement had been reached anyway. Sadly, this third version (which is still up) dropped any mention of the hissyfit threat. It's like someone at CNN wrote an unpleasant truth, only to have it "cleaned up" on edit. Not that the article was flaterring:
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Despite Clinton's message, many here seemed resigned to waiting for a political change in Washington.

"It's such a pity the United States is still very much unwilling to join the international community, to have a multilateral effort to deal with climate change," said the leader of the African group of nations here, Kenya's Emily Ojoo Massawa.

"The administration just doesn't seem to get it. They don't understand the world is suffering from climate change," said environmentalist group Climate Action Network.
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