Four newsrooms previewed the same White House meeting this morning. Only one of them published a scoreboard — and the score came from one of the players. * The one-sentence background: Netanyahu is at the White House today for his first sit-down with Trump since the Iran war began — a war the two men have publicly disagreed about — while mediators try to coax the talks back to life. * Fox's live-coverage headline going into it: "Trump says US 'winning big time' against Tehran as Netanyahu prepares to unveil new Iran intel." Yes, there's an attribution fig leaf — "Trump says." But a headline is the scoreboard, and Fox handed the scoreboard to the guy playing. For the record, the venue for this battlefield assessment was a General Motors event in Michigan. * Then the second half: Netanyahu "prepares to unveil new Iran intel." Unveil. Statues get unveiled. Fall collections get unveiled. What Netanyahu is actually bringing, per Fox's own reporting, is intelligence "alleging" Iran is expanding a nuclear site and negotiating in bad faith — a claim from one side of a live negotiation, arriving gift-wrapped in a curtain verb that assumes there's something real underneath. * Now the other three previews. NPR: "Netanyahu to meet Trump in a first encounter since the Iran war began." That's just the record, stated. AP: the meeting "is a chance to smooth over strains" — strains, plural, in the headline, because the disagreement is on the record too. CNN went with "Why this time around, Netanyahu's meeting with Trump might not go to script." Three outlets forecasting weather; one reading the home team's press release into the mic. * Here's why the word choice isn't cosmetic. When a war is in its fifth month and negotiators are trying to restart talks, "winning big time" isn't color commentary — it's a bargaining position. A headline that repeats it uncritically isn't describing the leverage; it's part of the leverage. The other outlets kept the claim in the body, where claims live next to their context. * Every player says they're winning at halftime. The job of the person with the microphone is to check the actual score — or at least mention that the guy talking has a jersey on.