Euronews came out of the World Cup semifinal with this headline: "Argentina reaches World Cup final, jubilation in Buenos Aires and disappointment in the Falklands." * Disappointment in the Falklands. Sounds like the islanders had a rough night with the football. Bad result, lads. Next time. * Here is what Euronews meant by disappointment, in its own words: "In Stanley, in the Falkland Islands, England supporters watched the match on Falkland Islands Television, reflecting the enduring sensitivity surrounding encounters between the two nations." So — people watched telly, and their team lost. * Here is what Euronews left out. After the final whistle, Argentina players Lisandro Martinez and Giovani Lo Celso held up a banner reading "Las Malvinas Son Argentinas" — the Falklands are Argentinian — and waved it at the stands. FIFA's Stadium Code of Conduct bans "banners, flags, flyers, apparel and other paraphernalia that are of a political, offensive, and/or discriminatory nature." * Not the banner, not the players, not FIFA. None of it is in the Euronews story. * Which is a genuinely impressive miss, because Euronews plainly knew the subject was live. In that same piece it wrote that "Argentina continues to claim sovereignty over the British overseas territory, which it calls the Malvinas, leaving the dispute unresolved." It reached all the way back to 1982 and the Hand of God. It brought the entire history to the party and then declined to mention that somebody had just gone and done the thing. * It's like posting a fire safety notice, walking through the building's long and troubled history of fire safety concerns, and never getting around to the fire. * Al Jazeera had no such trouble: "Argentina players brandish political Falklands flag after England match." Brandish. Political. A sentence in which an event happens and human beings do it. * The BBC went and got the government on the record — "UK says Falkland Islands 'definitely ours' after Argentina banner" — noting Argentina could be disciplined by Fifa. Say what you like about "definitely ours" as diplomatic language, and it does carry the energy of a man defending a parking space, but the BBC at least found somebody willing to say it out loud. * The gap matters because "disappointment" is a weather report. It hands you the mood and hides the cause. The reason an England–Argentina semifinal turns sensitive in Stanley has nothing to do with the score, and Euronews wrote an entire paragraph proving it knew that. Then it filmed the feeling and left the reason out on the pitch.