A wildfire has torn through more than 800 hectares of the Fontainebleau forest, about 70 kilometres from Paris. Four hundred firefighters worked through the night, the A6 motorway to Lyon closed, and on Monday France sent up water-bombing planes. Reuters' headline was exactly that: "France sends water bombers to tackle wildfire outside Paris." * France 24's headline: "Probe into intentional start of Fontainebleau fire underway." * Both are real. The interior minister did say investigators are looking at whether the fire was started deliberately, and reporting that is not a sin. Making it the headline is a choice — and the choice decides what kind of story you think you're reading before you've read a word. * Headline the water bombers and the heatwave, and it's a climate-and-preparedness story: third heatwave of the summer, a tinder-dry forest, flames reaching the capital region, and a queue of uncomfortable questions about what the state does next. Headline the probe, and it's a crime story: a villain, a manhunt, and — conveniently — nobody to question except the suspect. * Here's the thing about the arsonist, if there is one. He explains the spark. He doesn't explain why the spark found 800 hectares of kindling waiting for it — that part took a record-hot June and the summer's third heatwave to arrange. Your building burns during a gas leak and the landlord's first statement is about who was smoking. * And consider who's choosing the frame. France 24 is run by France Médias Monde — the French state's own international broadcaster. In the crime story, the state is the detective. In the climate story, the state takes questions. Guess which story the state's channel led with.