Netanyahu walked into the White House on Tuesday for his first sit-down with Trump since the two of them started the Iran war in February. That's the event. One sentence, done. The interesting part is what the headlines decided the event was. * Fox's live blog called it: "Trump, Netanyahu to chart next phase of Iran war." Chart next phase. That's not war coverage, that's a renewal announcement. Season two is in development, the writers are in the room, here's your first look. * CNN, covering the exact same hours of the exact same Tuesday: Trump "brushes off pressure to escalate Iran war." So on one channel the war is getting a sequel, and on the other the guy in charge is politely declining the pitch meeting. * Those aren't two takes on a detail. That's two headlines disagreeing about the direction of an actual war — more of it, or less of it. Readers of both outlets walked away Tuesday knowing different futures. * Earlier in the day, Fox had an even better sell on the summit: "Trump, Netanyahu to meet at White House today as oil prices plummet." The subheading credited the pause in US strikes for Brent sliding to $86. Read that back: the pitch for caring about a war council is your fuel bill, and the best argument for pausing a war is a commodity chart. The plumbing analogy writes itself — Fox heard the house was on fire and led with the water pressure. * The straight versions existed, for the record. NPR: "Netanyahu to meet Trump in a first encounter since the Iran war began" — just the facts, no season pass. Al Jazeera's live blog led with Tehran vowing to keep control of the Strait of Hormuz while calling the talks "positive," which is at least honest about the two things happening at once. * And Trump himself? Asked whether he and Netanyahu are aligned on Iran, he offered: "We have a little difference, but pretty close, yeah." That quote is a Rorschach test — Fox can hear "pretty close," CNN can hear "a little difference," and both can file their headline and go to lunch. * Here's why the gap matters. Whether the bombs resume isn't in the official readout — "positive and productive," per the White House, which is what readouts always say. The actual signal about where this war goes next lived in the headline you happened to scroll past. Pick your outlet, pick your war.