Manufacturing consent.
The insidious part here is they *know* the headline is the most a lot of people will ever see. This is the NYT, not some tiny local publication. An inaccurate but not technically false headline that gets clarified below the fold is an age-old disinformation tactic.
Basically if someone who read the full article talks to someone who only read the headline and says those women and children were raped, there's an expectation by the editors of at least some people responding with "well that's not what I read."
The insidious part here is they *know* the headline is the most a lot of people will ever see. This is the NYT, not some tiny local publication. An inaccurate but not technically false headline that gets clarified below the fold is an age-old disinformation tactic.
Basically if someone who read the full article talks to someone who only read the headline and says those women and children were raped, there's an expectation by the editors of at least some people responding with "well that's not what I read."