I started to notice a trend on Mastodon and Lemmy where the person criticize a news source for writing a minimally biased headline.
Sometimes, I even notice a person posting a article on Mastodon to provide commentary, and in the replies you would find a person criticizing the headline for not using loaded words.
Is there is any specific reason for people doing this?
Because passive language can be biased to.
Say someone speeds, ignores a red light and runs over a cyclist, which headline is more biased?
And you read the article and it’s a ambulance with it’s sirens on, going through a a green light that the cyclist was running.
The reason unbiased/factual headlines are preferred is because there can always be context we miss at the reporting time.