SMH anti-football propaganda?

[shipwreck]

Browsing through the SMH website and came accross the following, very slyly written headline

Victim hit me with bottle: officer
3:46pm A league fan, who died after grand final melee, hit constable in the face, an inquest hears.

Now am i getting paranoid, or have they intentionally worded it like that to make it look like "A-league fan" rather than "A rugby league fan" which is what the artical is actually about.

Clever, sneaky and evil they way they have subliminally sent a negative message about football (Police officers, fans dying, grand final melee) when the entire article is about a rugby league fan, but no one would know unless they read into the article further, so the average impressionable joe sees that headline, quickly dismisses it while thinking to himself "Damn Soccer Hooligans"

 

[MrCelery]

Browsing through the SMH website and came accross the following, very slyly written headline

Victim hit me with bottle: officer
3:46pm A league fan, who died after grand final melee, hit constable in the face, an inquest hears.

Now am i getting paranoid, or have they intentionally worded it like that to make it look like "A-league fan" rather than "A rugby league fan" which is what the artical is actually about.

Clever, sneaky and evil they way they have subliminally sent a negative message about football (Police officers, fans dying, grand final melee) when the entire article is about a rugby league fan, but no one would know unless they read into the article further, so the average impressionable joe sees that headline, quickly dismisses it while thinking to himself "Damn Soccer Hooligans"

I agree with your latter proposition. But then I'm paranoid too. Oooh, my head hurts!

 

[midfielder]

Browsing through the SMH website and came accross the following, very slyly written headline

Victim hit me with bottle: officer
3:46pm A league fan, who died after grand final melee, hit constable in the face, an inquest hears.

Now am i getting paranoid, or have they intentionally worded it like that to make it look like "A-league fan" rather than "A rugby league fan" which is what the artical is actually about.

Clever, sneaky and evil they way they have subliminally sent a negative message about football (Police officers, fans dying, grand final melee) when the entire article is about a rugby league fan, but no one would know unless they read into the article further, so the average impressionable joe sees that headline, quickly dismisses it while thinking to himself "Damn Soccer Hooligans"

Do you still have the link

 

[MrCelery]

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