If the point of a news story/video is to say something is not true, would you lead with the data from the not true side?

Here is the way this seems to work: grab your attention with a publicly available statistic that stands out. Oh my, how could there be so many murders in one city?? But, several sentences later, tell the reader/viewer that multiple other cities have a higher murder rate. And include in the last sentence that the murder number in Chicago has been down in recent years. So, wait: Chicago really isn’t the murder capital?

I’m trying to figure out how this adds to the public discourse. Here are a few possibilities:

1. It is simply about clicks. Get people’s attention with a statistic and a video, throw in some data. Easy to produce, not much content.
2. The goal is to highlight the still-high number of murders in Chicago.
3. The goal is to point out that other cities actually experience more murders per capita.
4. To give those who teach statistics an example of how data can be twisted and/or used without telling much of a story.