When a headline is written as a fact, I see it as a fact.
I refuse to read uncreative factually written headlines as any other way, as its basically attempting to spoon feed the reader into some basic idea.
This is in a similar way to how CNN or popular news stations talk to you as if you are a 5th grader.
I read headlines as they're written, and creative headlines get my attention, and stupid headlines go into the waste bin of all the other stupid headlines stated as facts which are not facts.