news headlines avoid writing bias like plague, just like they avoid writing about plague. yet, narrative is inherently biased, is it not? the words you choose to say and choose not to say, the details you deem important, the phrasing used when describing the health ministry counting the dead in gaza. you can tell a lot about the collective opinions at an "unbiased" paper by their phrasing
for instance, any time a headline uses the word "amid" followed by an event, that is what they're actually reporting on.
"UN calls for urgent aid scale-up" would require you explain for what, but if you were to really extrapolate that out it would be "for civilians attacked by the IDF", but that's bias, which is worse than any genocide, so instead the headline becomes "mass scale exodus", and that's the thing they really care about. the UN is just the excuse to report on mass migration, that gets clicks from people all across the political spectrum!
you can do this in reverse too. there's a housing crisis in michigan? shit, and there's 42% more migrants AMID it! don't they know how few houses we'll let them afford?!
ukraine and hungary are preparing for leaders to meet AMID... tensions? tensions! THERE IS TENSION IN UKRAINE AND HUNGARY YOU GUYS HEAR ABOUT THIS?
the more headlines you take in the more obvious this becomes. you can launder basically any idea by reporting on Whatever Is Happening and deciding what AMID it is responsible, or will be exasperated, or will somehow be worse than genocide
amid fears amid the war amid explosions amid biden amid genocide amid narrative. all of this amid a new wave of covid? and amid border tensions amid the migrant crisis amid climate change?
amid all of this change, can we really risk making changes? wait until we're unamid of anything before acting to allow new mids to a
