• optissima@lemmy.world
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    30 days ago

    If that was the case the title would read

    Thousands of nurses forced go on strike across New York as flu season hits due to unacceptable working conditions

    Recognize the spin

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      30 days ago

      What you’re describing is comically biased and nothing any serious news organization would print outside of an editorial. I have serious problems with The Independent, but this article is fine. You’re clearly aching for propaganda and/or editorialization, and there are plenty of places to find it.

      Would you like me to find you an editorial about this strike?

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        30 days ago

        They are striking because their demands weren’t met before the strike, so they are forced to strike to reach an equitable end. No one starts with a strike, leaving that out of the title and subtitle is also bias.

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          30 days ago

          So all strikes happen because demands weren’t met. Cool. And the fact that this is ostensibly true of literally every strike bolsters your case that this information should be in the headline… how, exactly?

          “Person McPersonson, who is a human being on or orbiting Earth and breathes oxygen, does a thing” should be in every article written about a person going forward just to make sure the people are informed.

          I’m not even going to bother arguing the obvious point that “forced” or calling the working conditions “unacceptable” in the publication’s voice is hilariously biased, because a) you’re clearly not intellectually honest enough to understand that and b) you’ve already dismantled your own shitty alternate headline by making everything you added to it superfluous – again, assuming the intent is to include pertinent information and not to make a propaganda piece.