I’m not saying The New York Times relies on WW for cues on covering foreign leaders.
Let’s just say the paper’s excellent piece this week on Czech President Václav Klaus — keyed to his country’s pending presidency of the European Union — echoed many of the same themes as our coverage of Klaus’ visit to Portland back in September.
Both stories noted Klaus’s reputation for arrogance and his rivalry with former Czech President Václav Havel. Both featured Klaus invoking Al Gore. And both contained a reference to Milton Friedman.
Maybe the Times — besides taking the opportunity to coin Klaus “an iconoclast with a perfectly clipped mustache” — was aiming to cause a minor stir in the Czech press the way WW did.
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