Here’s a ranking of these five headlines by how fairly they are worded, from least bad to worst. This is not a ranking of the content of the articles, which I have not read:
- VICE
Hidden Passageway Beneath New York Chabad Building Drives Chaos and Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories”
VICE gets the least bad award here because its title is mostly true. A high chair for an infant and a blood-stained child-sized mattress found in the passageway, people trying to fill in the tunnels while other people obstruct them, and a person filming a jew emerging from underground who intentionally swipes at and hits the camera, all contribute to a chaotic scene. People did theorize about conspiracies among so-called semites. The title ends up not being as biased as VICE might’ve hoped, because the slur ‘conspiracy theory’ no longer has the bite that VICE still thinks it does.
- The Jewish News of Northern California
ANALYSIS: So why were those yeshiva students digging a tunnel at Chabad HQ?”
This headline gets a relatively high ranking because it’s a question rather than an attempted statement of fact. It’s not totally neutral, though, because the persistent questioning shows that its writers aren’t pleased with the theories offered so far, so it implies their bias. It also hints that the article probably contains flimsy excuses for the tunnels.
- Rolling Stone
Twitter Explodes With Antisemitic Misinfo After Secret Tunnels Found Under NYC Synagogue”
Rolling Stone call people’s tweets “Misinfo” without knowing if the tweets are misinformation.
- The Forward
How Twitter activists turned a viral story about Orthodox Jews into a modern blood libel.”
The Forward has escalated Rolling Stone’s folly by characterizing the theories as “libel”. Despite the Stalinesque efforts of DHS, “misinfo” is not yet a punishable crime. Libel is a punishable crime. This false accusation is serious.
- Indy100
Secret underground Synagogue tunnels in NY spark wave of antisemitic conspiracies”
The sad thing is, Indy100 did the worst probably out of carelessness. By omitting the key word ‘theories’ from the common phrase ‘conspiracy theories’, Indy100 has falsely accused theorizers of the crime of conspiracy, which can be sentenced more harshly in criminal court than libel usually can.
Here’s a ranking of these five headlines by how fairly they are worded, from least bad to worst. This is not a ranking of the content of the articles, which I have not read:
- VICE
Hidden Passageway Beneath New York Chabad Building Drives Chaos and Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories”
VICE gets the least bad award here because its title is mostly true. A high chair for an infant and a blood-stained child-sized mattress found in the passageway, people trying to fill in the tunnels while other people obstruct them, and a person filming a jew emerging from underground who intentionally swipes at and hits the camera, all contribute to a chaotic scene. People did theorize about conspiracies among so-called semites. The title ends up not being as biased as VICE might’ve hoped, because “conspiracy theories” no longer has the bite that VICE still thinks it does.
- The Jewish News of Northern California
ANALYSIS: So why were those yeshiva students digging a tunnel at Chabad HQ?”
This headline gets a relatively high ranking because it’s a question rather than an attempted statement of fact. It’s not totally neutral, though, because the persistent questioning shows that its writers aren’t pleased with the theories offered so far, so it implies their bias. It also hints that the article probably contains flimsy excuses for the tunnels.
- Rolling Stone
Twitter Explodes With Antisemitic Misinfo After Secret Tunnels Found Under NYC Synagogue”
Rolling Stone call people’s tweets “Misinfo” without knowing if the tweets are misinformation.
- The Forward
How Twitter activists turned a viral story about Orthodox Jews into a modern blood libel.”
The Forward has escalated Rolling Stone’s folly by characterizing the theories as “libel”. Despite the Stalinesque efforts of DHS, “misinfo” is not yet a punishable crime. Libel is a punishable crime. This false accusation is serious.
- Indy100
Secret underground Synagogue tunnels in NY spark wave of antisemitic conspiracies”
The sad thing is, Indy100 did the worst probably out of carelessness. By omitting the key word ‘theories’ from the common phrase ‘conspiracy theories’, Indy100 has falsely accused theorizers of the crime of conspiracy, which can be sentenced more harshly in criminal court than libel usually can.
Here’s a ranking of these five headlines by how fairly they are worded, from least bad to worst. This is not a ranking of the content of the articles, which I have not read:
- VICE
Hidden Passageway Beneath New York Chabad Building Drives Chaos and Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories”
VICE gets the least bad award here because its title is mostly true. A high chair for an infant and a blood-stained child-sized mattress found in the passageway, people trying to fill in the tunnels while other people obstruct them, and a person filming a jew emerging from underground who intentionally swipes at and hits the camera, all contribute to a chaotic scene. People did theorize about conspiracies among so-called semites. The title ends up not being as biased as VICE might’ve hoped, because “conspiracy theories” no longer has the bite that VICE still thinks it does.
- The Jewish News of Northern California
ANALYSIS: So why were those yeshiva students digging a tunnel at Chabad HQ?”
This headline gets a relatively high ranking because it’s a question rather than an attempted statement of fact. It’s not totally neutral, though, because the persistent questioning shows that its writers aren’t pleased with the theories offered so far, so it implies their bias. It also hints that the article probably contains flimsy excuses for the tunnels.
- Rolling Stone
Twitter Explodes With Antisemitic Misinfo After Secret Tunnels Found Under NYC Synagogue”
Rolling Stone call people’s tweets “Misinfo” without knowing if the tweets are misinformation.
- The Forward
How Twitter activists turned a viral story about Orthodox Jews into a modern blood libel.”
The forward has escalated Rolling Stone’s folly by characterizing the theories as “libel”. Despite the Stalinesque efforts of DHS, “misinfo” is not yet a punishable crime. Libel is a punishable crime. This false accusation is serious.
- Indy100
Secret underground Synagogue tunnels in NY spark wave of antisemitic conspiracies”
The sad thing is, Indy100 did the worst probably out of carelessness. By omitting the key word ‘theories’ from the common phrase ‘conspiracy theories’, Indy100 has falsely accused theorizers of the crime of conspiracy, which can be sentenced more harshly in criminal court than libel usually can.