USA Today, please define “bickers”

Here's the daily's peculiar headline:

Biden bickers with Cheney across TV airwaves

Well, that doesn't sound good, does it? But according to the daily it was Biden who was bickering. It was the VP, to use the working definition, who “engaged in a petulant and peevish argument” with Cheney.

Really USA Today? That's how you describe what Biden did on the Sunday talk shows? Becuase I'd suggest the far more accurate description is Biden defended the administration from Cheney's latest bout of incessant attacks. It was Biden who responded and fact-checked Cheney.

Oh, and which man had the facts on his side during Biden's bickering? USA Today doesn't inform readers about that. USA Today just transcribes the back-and-forth and then places the onus on Biden for the unsightly bickering.