What's in a headline?

Kerry has attempted to deflect the CBS scandal away from him (because the source of the documents allegedly had CBS set up a meeting between him and the Kerry camp).

One might say that Kerry denies that there was a link between his campaign and the scandalous reporting by CBS.

Instead, the right-wing Washington Times goes with the headline "Kerry camp rejects CBS link." Small semantics, to be sure, but "rejects CBS link" implies that there was once a link and now they are pulling away from it. Perhaps they meant "rejects charge of CBS link" - which would be closer to the truth.

Okay, maybe I am a bit paranoid or a bit too moderate to accept it as conincidence and not subtlety. But that headline could have been better written and less misleading - if objective journalism was the goal at the Washington Times.