Federal agents spent Friday evening hand-delivering grand jury subpoenas to four New York Times reporters — Julian Barnes, Eric Lipton, Tyler Pager and Eric Schmitt — over their reporting on Trump's new Air Force One. Some got the knock at their front doors. That's the event. Now watch each newsroom describe it. * Fox News went with: "Trump administration subpoenas NY Times journalists in grand jury leak probe tied to Air Force One report." A leak probe. Tidy, procedural, faintly boring — the government checking a pipe for drips. And note what the journalists are doing in that sentence: nothing. They're just "tied to" something, the way accessories are. * CNN's headline on the identical event: "Trump administration subpoenas New York Times journalists who reported security concerns around new Air Force One." Same four people, same doorbells — except on CNN they reported security concerns, and on Fox they're attached to a probe. One headline gives them a job; the other gives them a case file. * NPR kept its own headline flat — "Justice Department subpoenas New York Times reporters over Air Force One reporting" — then let the Times call it a "brazen act" in the very first line, and put the paper's lawyer up high, saying agents on reporters' doorsteps "should shock the conscience of any American who believes in the Constitution and the press freedom it protects." * Fox printed the criticism too — eventually. The press-freedom objections sit deep in the piece, and the Justice Department gets the closing argument: reporters "are not the targets," the leakers are. A comforting note to end on, gently undercut by who has to appear before a Manhattan grand jury on Wednesday. The not-targets. * One detail every version agrees on, worth a slow blink: the subpoenas came from US Attorney Jay Clayton, whom Trump has just nominated to be his next national intelligence director. The prosecutor pursuing the story that embarrassed the White House is, at this very moment, interviewing for a job there. * And the underlying story? The Times reported that the Secret Service urged Trump to fly home from the NATO summit on the older Air Force One, because the Qatar-gifted jet lacks the old plane's antimissile defenses. The reporting was, functionally, about keeping the president alive. The reply was four subpoenas. Calling that a "leak probe" is accurate the way calling a house fire "an insurance matter" is accurate.