'No Possibility' of Gaza Cease-Fire, Biden Says as 500+ Former Staffers Demand One
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"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.
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It’s called grammar. I didn’t make the rules.
So I don’t see it as malice or misinformation. I had no no trouble with the headline.
An implication doesn't need to be directly conveyed, especially in a situation so small as a headline. Implication is often used in headlines to convey more information that explicitly stating everything, and especially to save on word count.
For example: "TITANIC SINKS, 1500 DIE" Purely by literal meaning: A big boat sank, and somewhere at somepoint, many people died of something. Odd to include that people have died before, that's just a fact of life, but the Titanic was carrying a lot of people, did they survive? Too bad the headline didn't say, I guess they don't know yet.
We could look even deeper and conclude that Biden rejected the possibility of a ceasefire specifically because the former staffers demands. I don't think he's that spiteful, so it would be an odd interpretation, but it would be fully grammatical correct. Sorry, I didn't make the
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So I don't see how a single definition rules out others, as several exist.
So, you didn’t like, or understand the headline, and that’s the author’s fault. Fair point. It doesn’t make it grammatically incorrect though. Email the writer and let them know, if it means that much to you.
So they were grammatically correct with their intentionally misleading headline. Glad everyone reached a consensus.
Because it’s grammatically correct it’s not intentionally misleading. “As” is the keyword. Run has 645 meanings. Just because people interpret a phrase differently doesn’t mean it’s wrong, or malicious.
Except that it is obviously both wrong and malicious.
I proved that it is not grammatically wrong, can you prove that it is malicious?
It leaves out context, intentionally. If this was a fox news headline, I'd say the same thing, and you'd agree.
The context is in the article. It could be argued that it is in the headline too, but some obviously have interpreted it differently.
Edit: Replace “as” with “while” and maybe you’ll understand.
Indeed.
Edit: You are just being condescending and not pointing out anything meaningful.
I’m not trying to be condescending. I’m just incapable of explaining this in a satisfactory way. Those criticizing the headline are not pointing out anything meaningful. The information in the article correlates with the headline. Biden has the ability to endorse a ceasefire, “while” his former staffers are urging him to do so.
You are incapable of explaining it because it is an incredibly common and recognizable representation of a bad faith headline.
Summarizing an article and writing a headline isn’t easy. I know from experience. It may be in bad faith, it doesn’t appear that way to me. It doesn’t detract from the relevant information in the article.