Every newsroom on the planet had the same tape Tuesday night. Sitting across from Fox News, Trump read out next week's shopping list: “Next week comes the power plants. Next week comes the bridges. We're gonna knock out all their power plants. We're going to knock out all their bridges unless they get to the table and negotiate.” A president promising, on camera, to switch off a country. Now watch four newsrooms unwrap the exact same quote. * Fox goes first, because the tape was theirs — an exclusive with chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst. Their headline: “Trump threatens to expand strikes on Iran, says power plants are next to go: 'Hit them hard.'” Next to go — the grammar of a clearance sale. And of all the sentences available from that interview, the one promoted to the headline slot was the pep talk. * Scroll down the same Fox article and Trump adds: “We're being very careful with the civilian population, as you know.” That line lives a few paragraphs below the promise to knock out ALL the power plants — the machines that run hospitals, water pumps and, well, civilian populations. The two sentences never meet. Nobody at the desk introduced them. * The BBC had no exclusive to protect, so no perfume: “Trump threatens to bomb bridges and power plants unless Iran resumes talks.” The objects, the verb, and the ransom-note structure — that “unless” is doing honest work. The BBC's analysis desk then twisted the knife sideways: “Trump retreat over Hormuz tolls suggests he is struggling to end Iran war.” * Al Jazeera's live blog: “Iran's bridges, power plants possible targets, Trump says.” Attribution armor — “possible,” “Trump says” — the sound of a newsroom holding a grenade with kitchen tongs. * France 24 trimmed it to “Strikes intensify as Trump threatens to target Iran's power plants.” The bridges didn't make the cut. A tidier threat is an easier headline. * Four headlines, one quote — and not one of them found room for the word “civilian.” Bridges and power plants got called targets, infrastructure, leverage. The people standing on the bridges will be relieved to hear it's nothing personal.