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Lots of us know this. Lots of us can also see that the 4 titles that you posted are not an example of this.
Some of those article titles that you are trying to paint as inaccurate, are in fact highly accurate. I can't find anything wrong with the titles of the guardian and the new York Times that you posted. They are reporting a thing that happened and a thing that was said. They make it very clear that the "pre-emptive" thing is a claim of Israel and not a fact.
Unlike your claim in the OP, The Guardian also doesn't have a credibility of high on that shitty mbfc site, but only "mixed".
As I've explained above, reliably giving prominence to the quotes of one source promotes that one source and those quotes as it subconsciously it makes it seem more important to the reader.
This is a technique used for Propaganda when the propagandist doesn't control the information space of the reader: since outright lies would easily be caught when readers have easy access to other newsmedia, the promotion of one side over the other by the propagandist is instead done by portraying it as more important by quoting it more often, giving more prominence to those quotes and never challenging them.
It's interesting the number of concerned posters popping out if the woodwork here repeating the pretty old falacy commonly harped by such news media that "they are stating those are quotes hence they're giving fair coverage" which is an obvious oversimplification of how impressions are made on others and hence of how opinions are made by even the most junior professional in PR, Marketing or Politics.
Why is Hezbollah not defending themselves against a large scale israeli attack?
Why is Hezbollah not launching a "pre-emptive" attack?
Why is Hezbollah not "launching rockets 'in self defense'?
Because loaded language is used in favor of israel, not against it.
Your alternative titles really highlight how little you value factuality.
Hezbollah did not claim to be launching a pre-emptive attack. And claiming that they launched a pre-emptive attack after they were already attacked is ... Weird.
No one is reporting that Hezbollah was launching these rockets in self defence, because Hezbollah has already let it be known that their attack was a retaliation for the murder of one of their commanders in july.
No news source worth their salt is going to use those titles, because it's straight up inventing alternate facts.
Your 4 examples of what you want to portray as "non credible reporting" are professionals. Unlike you, they're not just going to invent news to push their narrative. Yes they have their biases, but unlike your alternate facts, their reporting is based on actual facts.