The US bombed Iran again overnight — CENTCOM says it hit dozens of IRGC targets across the southern provinces. That's the event, one sentence, done. The interesting part is who each newsroom put in the driver's seat. * Fox's live blog: "American forces hit 'dozens' of Iranian targets following attempted attack on US troops." Read that grammar twice. The strikes don't start anything — they follow. And Tuesday's Iranian missile barrage is an "attempted attack," the linguistic filing cabinet for a swing and a miss. When a punch gets thrown at you and intercepted, Fox logs it as "attempted." When you throw eighty back, that's not an attack — that's just what happens next. * CNN handed its headline to the man himself: "Trump says it's 'our turn' after intercepted Iranian attack." The full quote is a keeper: "We're going to be hitting them very hard because it's our turn to hit them. They know it's coming." Putting that in the headline slot turns a bombing campaign into a board game — whose turn is it? Ours. It's not framing by CNN so much as framing by forfeit: hold the mic, print what comes out. * Bloomberg chose "US Launches New Strikes on Iran After Missile Attack on Military Base" — and the story's own web address goes further: the war "escalates again." Look at the star of that clause: the war. The war escalates. Nobody escalates it. It just does that on its own, like humidity. * Then Al Jazeera: "US launches 'heavy wave' of new attacks on Iran." Different subject, different noun — not "strikes," which sounds surgical, but "attacks," which sounds like what it feels like underneath one. And Al Jazeera's copy is where the other ledger appears: Iranian media reporting a couple and their two-year-old killed on Qeshm island, plus three IRGC personnel. On Fox's scoreboard the US hit "dozens of targets." In Al Jazeera's accounting, one of the entries was a toddler. * Nobody invented anything here. Every quote is real — CENTCOM genuinely called this "a powerful response to yesterday's attempted Iranian attacks." The choice was what leads: Iran's failed attempt (Fox), Trump's turn (CNN), a war that escalates itself (Bloomberg), or the American hand on the trigger (Al Jazeera). Same bombs. Four protagonists. Pick your paper, pick your plot.