It does for people who bother to think about it. How do you have an anonymous press conference? How do a dozen reporters get more credibility than one, unless someone is saying that to add weight that otherwise doesn't exist?
Blair to visit Italy amid threats
ROME: Holidaying at his tightly-guarded Sardinian retreat, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy prepared yesterday to host his British counterpart Tony Blair as the threat of attacks from an Al Qaeda-linked group loomed.
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