Overnight, Iranian missiles and drones went at Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Jordan and Syria, and sirens sounded over Doha — which happens to be Al Jazeera's home city, in the country that funds Al Jazeera. Keep that in mind while we read its coverage of the night its own capital got hit. * The headline: "Gulf states come under Iranian fire as US strikes intensify." Gulf states come under fire — the grammar of weather, things that happen to you. And the second half of the sentence immediately pivots to the US. On this page, an Iranian attack never arrives alone; it always shows up with an "as Washington..." clause attached, like a chaperone. * The subhead goes further: "IRGC claims responsibility for strikes against US military assets in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Jordan and Syria." Strikes on six countries, relabeled as strikes on "US military assets." That's not Al Jazeera's description — that's Tehran's target list, promoted to the subhead with a light 'claims' for insulation. * Now scroll down and meet what the "US military assets" turned out to include. Paragraph nine: "The Qatari Ministry of Interior confirmed on Friday that a child was injured by falling shrapnel during Iran's assault." A child. In Doha. Injured by "falling shrapnel" — shrapnel that apparently just falls, weather again. That's the ninth paragraph of the story, in the outlet's own capital. * Paragraphs ten and eleven: Iran hit a Kuwaiti power and desalination plant, fire, ration your electricity — and, as Al Jazeera itself notes, about 90 percent of Kuwait's water comes from desalination, so damage there "risks severe humanitarian consequences." Drinking water for an entire country: also filed under the subhead's "US military assets." * Compare the verbs going the other direction. Paragraph five, on the American side of the ledger: "the escalating US air campaign targeted civilian infrastructure" — active subject, named target type, death toll attached. When the US bombs, Al Jazeera knows exactly who did what to what. When Iran's missiles reach a child and a water plant, the victims "come under fire" and the stated targets are American hardware. * CNN's banner for the same night: "Gulf nations fend off fresh attacks, US strikes Iran." Victims first, doing something — fending. Not poetry, but the missiles and the people they flew at are at least in the same clause. * Al Jazeera does real journalism all over this war, and the facts above are all in its own story — it reported the child, the water plant, the sirens. But the framing decisions all lean one way, and on a night when the shrapnel fell on its own city, that's worth saying out loud: the outlet is funded by the Government of Qatar, and even with Doha under fire, the headline's main character was Washington.