The State Department gathered diplomats from 67 countries Thursday for a summit on what the administration calls far-left terrorism. Whether that category is a real global emergency or a political project is the entire fight — and you could learn each newsroom's verdict without reading a single sentence of either story. Just look at where they put the quotation marks. * Fox's headline: "Rubio puts entire world on notice against rise of 'poisonous' far-left terror 'masked as equality.'" The quote marks sit on the adjectives — 'poisonous,' 'masked as equality' — Rubio's flourishes, dutifully attributed. Everything else runs in Fox's own voice: there is far-left terror, it is rising, and Rubio has "put the entire world on notice," a phrase previously available only in Liam Neeson trailers. * CNN's headline on the identical event: "Rubio and Miller warn of the 'mortal threat' of 'far-left terror' in speech to 67 countries." Here the quote marks crawl over everything. The 'mortal threat' is claimed. The 'far-left terror' is claimed. A few sentences in, CNN is writing "so-called left-wing terrorism" and the "alleged rise." Every noun is wearing oven mitts. * The substance gap is checkable, too. Rubio's core stat — that the share of left-wing attacks and plots "has risen to levels not seen in decades" — sails through Fox unexamined. Fox does eventually seat the skeptics: paragraph 18 of about 32, one sentence — "some analysts and foreign officials have questioned" whether these groups amount to a coherent global threat — followed immediately by a paragraph of officials rejecting those concerns, rebuttal included free of charge. CNN's version puts the pushback on the record and lands the detail doing the heaviest lifting in the whole story: far-right violence, which those same officials say remains the bigger threat, is absent entirely from the administration's new counterterrorism strategy. A terror summit that pre-selects which ideology counts as terror is a story. One of these two articles noticed. * And to keep the scoring honest: attributing contested claims is literally the job, so CNN's tongs are closer to correct than Fox's megaphone. But "so-called" isn't attribution — it's an eye-roll rendered in type, and it gift-wraps the next week of "the media sneers at you" segments. Rubio even called that shot from the podium, telling the room the "dogma" would rear its head "in the coverage of this very conference." The clean version was available to everyone: quote the man exactly, put the data next to it, skip the sneer. Nobody quite ordered it.