Puzzling Headline Discrepency...
Feazanthia
28-02-2006, 01:24
Washington Post Headline: On Day of Curfew, Iraq Violence Eases (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/24/AR2006022400178.html?referrer=email)
BBC Online Headline: Curfew Fails to Halt Iraq Killing (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4749866.stm)
Discuss, and flame on.
Tweedlesburg
28-02-2006, 01:26
Washington Post Headline: On Day of Curfew, Iraq Violence Eases (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/24/AR2006022400178.html?referrer=email)
BBC Online Headline: Curfew Fails to Halt Iraq Killing (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4749866.stm)
Discuss, and flame on.
Technically, they can both be true. The curfew eased the violence, but did not stop the killing completely.
Technically, they can both be true. The curfew eased the violence, but did not stop the killing completely.
Or it could have eased the amount of fistfights, for example, but did nothing in regard to the killings.
Kahanistan
28-02-2006, 01:33
Or one side's lying, we all know the USian media are biased.
The Infinite Dunes
28-02-2006, 01:34
Even more so. Halt is an absolute term. It means 'stop'. Period. 'Eases' could just mean less people died than yesterday in that context. This is what we call spin. Both headlines can be correct, but make you think of the situation differently.
Tactical Grace
28-02-2006, 01:38
They had a curfew which was announced at midnight local time, so obviously no-one knew anything about it and people still came out to fight. A whole squad of Iraqi police commandos getting wiped out and a couple of dozen other killings sounds the same as the days immediately following the shrine bombing. There is no visible "easing" that I can see, unless 36+ people is an improvement on 50+. Bear in mind it takes a while to catalogue the bodies, and many are not found until days after their deaths.