>I do not know you, but I found quite often, not only in this case, sometimes even local news, newspapers put a title that is later contradictory or completely different of what the actual news say, it happens very often and I think is quite effective, people keep that title in their mind when reading the rest of the article (if they ever do it) and they mis-understand it, and of course, they understand what the writers wanted to, and they can not be accused of lying for they will claim some "mistake"

I think it's the editors, or someone else from the staff, who pulls the headline out of the article, not the original author. And if there's a few ideas for the headline, the one which will most likely attract the reader's eye is the one which will be printed. So this discrepancy between the actual text and the headline happens more often than not, and it's usually not the writer's fault.

But it is someone's fault. Just higher up than you thought.