# 15. Linguistic manipulation ## 15.5. Methodology/Refinements/Sub-species ### 15.5.4. Syntactic manipulation #### 15.5.4.6. Initialisation Adjusting word order alters perception of events: (1) Police shot blacks dead as meeting turned into riot (2) Blacks shot dead by police as meeting turned into riot (3) Blacks shot dead as meeting turned into riot And going a bit further this can become: (4) Rioting blacks shot dead by police (5) Rioting blacks shot dead So the structure of the sentence alters the sense of the events from the original where police killed black people at a meeting which turned into a riot to the last structure which implies that black rioters had only themselves to blame.