NYTimes damning #WikiLeaks by faint acknowledgement of quashed rape warrant?

OK – here’s a cool experiment – go to the NYT homepage and do a search on WikiLeaks and you’ll get the following search results and headline:

Sweden Rescinds Warrant for WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange
Julian Assange was sought by Swedish prosecutors for questioning on rape allegations, but the prosecutors then said the accusations were …

Note the headline. Now, click through to the link:

Sweden Adds to Drama Over Founder of WikiLeaks
By JOHN F. BURNS and ERIC SCHMITT
Published: August 21, 2010

LONDON — Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks Web site who is embroiled in a fight with the Pentagon over the disclosure of secret military documents, was caught up in a new drama on Saturday when Swedish prosecutors sought him for questioning on allegations of rape and molestation — and then announced the rape allegation was unfounded.

WTF is “Adds To Drama?” Surely the big news is the quashing of the allegation, it’s not “additional drama” it’s complete negation of the old story, and a bigger one atop it viz: who issued the warrant, why, and under what circumstances?

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