It's kind of a Mott and Bailey strategy in thier own articles when you think about it. The thing they assert perpetually is the title and the framing of it, then they are forced to retreat into the reality of paragraph 24.
Therefore: "The news media isn't lying because we put the truth in there somewhere"
Those articles were not written for people who read past the headline.
You're right.
It's kind of a Mott and Bailey strategy in thier own articles when you think about it. The thing they assert perpetually is the title and the framing of it, then they are forced to retreat into the reality of paragraph 24.
Therefore: "The news media isn't lying because we put the truth in there somewhere"