"As the president of the United States, you have power to change the course of history, and the responsibility to save lives right now," the staffers wrote.

“As the president of the United States, you have power to change the course of history, and the responsibility to save lives right now,” the staffers wrote.

  • jeffw@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17414·
    10 months ago

    Taking from my comment on the other community where you posted this:

    Biden asked for one and reported Netanyahu said no.

    The headline sounds like he’s just dismissing his staffers

    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      11310·
      10 months ago

      You mean the headline is intentionally misleading to the point of misinforming people?

      It’s straight up journalistic malpractice the way they phrased it

        • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.caEnglish
          284·
          10 months ago

          It doesn’t matter what the intent is here, the headline is misleading, which is poor journalist integrity. Both malice and ignorance can sink a ship.

          • TokenBoomer@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            533·
            10 months ago

            Intent is irrelevant. Biden’s comment and the staffer’s letter correlate (A relationship or connection between two things based on co-occurrence or pattern of change). It is implied (To make evident indirectly) that Biden is disregarding the wishes of the staffers. If you can’t comprehend this, I can’t help you read gooderer.

            • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.caEnglish
              172·
              10 months ago

              It is implied

              Someone did the implying, and that’s bad practice. You are correct that intent is irrelevant, yet you take issue with the headline being accused of intentional misinformation.

              The thing about implications is that they exists regardless of your intent or your audience’s comprehension. It doesn’t matter if the headline is technically correct, if a significant portion of the audience leaves misinformed, that’s poor jounalism. The extent to which this happens here edges into malpractice, either from ignorance or malice.

              Since you take issue with the accusation, you either disagree with the claim of malice or the claim of misinformation; as you reject the former you must disagree that a headline that gives a drastically different interpretation of reality is misinformation. Am I wrong?

    • eestileib@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      369·
      10 months ago

      “Ok then stop sending bombs and using reaper drones to help them perform mass killings”

      “No can do chief, Bibi told me I need to keep doing all that.”

    • daftwerder@lemm.eeEnglish
      3416·
      10 months ago

      Considering the power that the US has over Israel, he pretty much is just dismissing his staffers.

    • rigatti@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      10 months ago

      That makes me feel better, but I wish he would put some weight behind it.

    • Rakonat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2023·
      10 months ago

      Even if IDF stops shooting, what really makes people believe Hamas will stop? I want an end to the violence as much as anyone else but I really don’t see a cease fire doing anything but giving Hamas time to rearm and plan their next massacre.

      • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        152·
        10 months ago

        And if IDF doesn’t stop shooting like they do now, will the continued escalation make less people flock to anti-israel organization like Hamas? Because all I can see happening is that, while Israel may take over some land, they are just strengthening the support of terrorists.