What comes to mind when you hear a news outlet say "Obtained by"

[The Straight Story]

In relation to this story:

U.N. 'Climate Change' Plan Would Likely Shift Trillions to Form New World Economy

The 16-page note, obtained by FOX News, will be distributed to participants at a mammoth negotiating session that starts on March 29 in Bonn, Germany, the first of three sessions intended to hammer out the actual commitments involved in the new deal.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510937,00.html

Now to me it brings to mind some source or other leaked it to them, or some such thing.

Why did they need to 'obtain' it when they could have just went to the web site and read it:

http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2009/awg7/eng/inf03.pdf
Which is linked from here:
http://unfccc.int/meetings/ad_hoc_working_groups/kp/items/4792.php

I dunno, just find this wording interesting...

[NightWatcher]

1. obtained by makes it sound like they hunted out and did some work

instead of "our reporter clicked on a link"

[petronius]

2. I read it as an attempt to imply that the material in question was concealed,

and the media had to make an extra effort to get it (sometimes that's even true).

It seems to be the RW buzz of the week, I was listening to Rush on a long drive recently and a lot of his blather had to do with the 'secret report' that would 'expose' the 'hoaxers' as 'anti-capitalist swine attempting to take over the world.'

So much of the of the AGW skepticism depends on conspiracy theory - this is just a manifestation of that...

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. Sounds like a sinister, out-of-public-view shady deal

with mobsters



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[soothsayer]

4. just means it wasn't (necessarily) pap handed to them by officials

[Arctic Dave]

5. "Uh, it fell off the back of a truck."

As for the report, most likely it was in their e-mail when they woke up.