Comment by gslepak

Comment by gslepak 3 days ago

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> let’s focus the discussion on the technical aspects of it.

The headline chosen here is already biased: "Dozens of _Hezbollah members_ [..]"

Anyone following this closely can see that plenty other title choices could be used. There are headlines that would be credibly neutral, headlines that favor the IDF, and headlines that favor Hezbollah. HN is currently choosing to go with a non-neutral, non-technical headline for this story. Maybe we should make the headline neutral as well before telling the commenters to focus solely on the technicals?

If you don't understand what I'm referring to, look at some of the downvoted and hidden comments here.

TwentyPosts 3 days ago

Honestly struggling to comprehend how this one isn't neutral.

As far as we know this was a supply-chain attack specifically on military pagers actively used by Hezbollah, and (right now) it looks like most injured are in fact Hezbollah members (which makes sense, since no one else has any reason to carry such a pager). (With some sad and unfortunate exceptions.)

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  • gslepak 2 days ago

    After I posted my comment the title was updated to be a little bit more neutral.

    The previous headline was emphasizing a little too strongly the assumption that this attack was against Hezbollah only, and as you mention there are "exceptions", meaning, civilians and non-militants (including children) were killed and injured.

    EDIT: in other words, the headline is/was written with the assumption that whoever was attacked was a member of Hezbollah, but this isn't true.

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