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Not OP, but it seems like they have changed the headline of the article a lot here and keep changing it
Archive is, shows that at one point the article had a headline of:
"Scores reported dead in Gaza school shelter as Israel says it bombed militants"
https://archive.is/RS0UR
But then changed again
As of writing this comment, it's changed again from your comment to "Israeli strike kills nearly 100 in Gaza school refuge, officials say" which is different than what your screenshot shows
News organization sometimes also do A/B tests where they show different headlines to different people to see what gets the most clicks. Unsure if Reuters does this but I know some others do
Yes, I understand what they are claiming Reuters is doing. I am saying that as far as I can tell, it isn’t true (the current headline bears no resemblance to the sanitized version OP is claiming), and I’m wondering why OP is saying that it is.
It looks to me like Reuters edited the headline to take out the idea that Israel says it was targeting militants, because although it may be true that Israel said that, it's become clear that it wasn't true, so there was no reason to repeat it in the headline. OP is saying Reuters did the opposite of that edit, and I'm asking them to clarify, which they so far don't seem to feel like doing.
This is a fascinating assertion (as pertains to respectable news outlets like Reuters that drop a little note into place when they edit a headline for the exact reason that they don't want people to get the sense they're being shifty with what they're presenting - I am sure there are news websites that do it but I would be very surprised if any of the mainstream print news outlets that have web presences do it)
I should have clarified my comment about how the article changed. First archived version of the article on archive.is (almost certainly not the first headline) was:
"Israel strike on Gaza school kills more than 100, Palestinian news agency says"
Then the next archived version was Scores reported dead in Gaza school shelter as Israel says it bombed militants
And then it went back to Israeli strike kills nearly 100 in Gaza school refuge, civil defence officials say
(and almost certainly more versions of the headline missing from the archive)
So presumably they posted the tweet during that part in the middle
EDIT: looks like you added some more to your comment, so will respond to that
"but I would be very surprised if any of the mainstream print news outlets that have web presences do it"
The New York Times is very open about doing A/B testing, which I would consider a mainstream print news outlet with a web presence
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/23/insider/headline-trump-time-interview.html
It sounds like they were modifying the headline to be more pro Palestinian and more in line with the facts, and edit out some things Israel was saying which turned out to be lies. I fail to see how that matches up with the thesis that Reuters is slanting the story for Israel, or that their headline was getting more pro-Israeli over time, or the broader argument that Reuters is slanting its coverage to manufacture consent (e.g. look at their current front page).
I do recognize that both of those scenarios involve Reuters changing the headline, yes. You don't have to keep explaining that concept to me; I can grasp it. I was asking OP about some of the details of when they saw these intermediate headlines that they were using to paint a picture that seemed to me to be backwards from the reality.