On the current Washington Post “World” page we find a piece by David Albright’s stenographer Joby Warrick headlined: IAEA resolution to sharply criticize Iran for nuclear efforts.

First please notice how the headline on the “World page” and in the URL is factually false. The piece isn’t about a UN resolution but about an IAEA board of governors resolution and te IAEA isn’t even a UN organization. When one clicks through to the story the headline of the story (though not its URL) is changed to “IAEA …”.

But the real curious issue is that on the very same “World” page, a bit down, we find the largely same though longer story written by the Associated Press with the headline: APNewsBreak: Russia, West agree on Iran text moderately critical of Tehran’s nuke program.

So does the resolution “sharply” criticize or is it only “moderately” critical? As it was toned down to accommodate China and Russia the second interpretation is definitely the more correct on.

But Warrick’s task is to hype the “Iranian nuclear threat” just like Judith Miller once hyped “Iraq’s WMD”. As there are less facts in his shorter piece than in the original AP article he seemingly copied from that likely explains why he ended up with an incorrect appraisement and the AP writers with a correct one.