Sixth night of the US-Iran war, and Iranian missiles and drones went after the neighbors: Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan. That's the one-sentence version. Now let's talk about Fox's banner headline. * "Iran threatens to lash out at Arab neighbors as US ramps up strikes." Read that verb again: threatens. Future tense. The lashing-out is a forecast — something Iran might do if pushed. * Now scroll down the very same Fox live page. "Child wounded in Qatar following Iranian attack, interior ministry says." "Kuwait fights against missile and drone threats from Iran." "Air raid sirens heard in Bahrain after Iran claims attack on US airbase." That's not a threat. That's a casualty report. * CNN's banner, same night: "Gulf nations fend off fresh attacks, US strikes Iran." No forecast, no maybe — attacks, plural, happening, being fended off. Kuwait's air defenses were up and Bahrain's interior ministry was telling residents to take shelter. * The gap matters because "threatens" does quiet work. A threat is a thing that hasn't happened yet — which keeps Iran in the role of menace winding up, and the US strikes in the role of getting ahead of it. An attack that already wounded a child in Qatar is a different story, and it was sitting three entries down Fox's own page. * The rest of Fox's real estate went to the scoreboard: Trump saying Iran has lost "up to 90% of its weapons capabilities," the naval blockade holding the Strait of Hormuz. The wounded kid got an entry. The verb got the banner. * Headline verbs are cheap. They're also the only part most people read. Pick "threatens," and the missiles are still on the ground. Pick "fend off," and they're already in the sky. Same night, same missiles.