On Friday, federal agents delivered grand jury subpoenas to four New York Times journalists — some of them hand-delivered at the reporters' homes. Julian Barnes, Eric Lipton, Tyler Pager and Eric Schmitt are ordered to testify in Manhattan on Wednesday, over their reporting on Secret Service security concerns about the new Qatari-gifted Air Force One. * The Times broke the story about itself early Saturday, which is its own strange genre: the newsroom as crime scene. Their top lawyer, David McCraw, did not reach for lukewarm: "The appearance of federal law enforcement agents on the doorstep of news reporters should shock the conscience of any American who believes in the Constitution and the press freedom it protects." * The Justice Department's reassurance is a small masterpiece: the reporters are "not targets" — the leakers are. Sure. And the drill is for the tooth, not for you. You're still the one in the chair Wednesday morning. * Now watch the same event pass through two headline desks. Fox News: "Trump administration subpoenas NY Times journalists in grand jury leak probe tied to Air Force One report." The star of that sentence is a "leak probe" — a sober, procedural thing — and the journalists are merely "tied to" it, like bystanders who wandered into frame. CNN: "Trump administration subpoenas New York Times journalists who reported security concerns." There, the journalists are people who did journalism, and the subpoena is the thing that happened to them for it. * Credit where due: Fox's actual article plays it straight — McCraw's quote sits high up, and the DOJ gets its say without getting the last word. The framing war happened in the headline. Which would be a footnote, except the headline is the part everybody reads. * Strip away the grammar and here's what's left: four reporters have a court date for being told something true about the president's plane. Whichever channel told you about it, that part survived the framing.