PSA for anyone reading this, the phrase is colloquially "burying the lede."
"The lede" is a journalistic term roughly meaning the gist of the story. http://grammarist.com/usage/lead-lede/
"The lede" is a journalistic term roughly meaning the gist of the story. http://grammarist.com/usage/lead-lede/
We're talking here about sugar-coating, spinning, etc.
Burying the lede tends to apply more to writing a story that goes into a bunch of routine story details or a story that's only peripherally related entirely. And then, after some time, a paragraph about news that's genuinely novel, interesting, etc.
For example, writing about a bunch of routine speech contents and then 6 paragraphs down mentioning some major revelation.
Your comment is like this more extreme example:
ARTICLE: I thumbled the plate and it shattered on the floor.
COMMENTER: The word is fumbled.
YOU: I would argue this is different because fumbling tends to apply to football.