France 24's headline, live from the NATO summit: "Putin and Zelensky both want war 'settled', Trump says." * Both. As in, evenly split. As in, two sides equally leaning toward the exit. * Here's what that headline is standing next to, chronologically: Al Jazeera's headline from the day before -- "Russian attacks on Ukraine kill 20 on eve of NATO summit, authorities say." By the time Trump was saying the word "settled," other outlets had the same night's toll climbing past 22 and still rising. * One side of this war spent the night before the summit launching missiles at a capital city. The other side buried people. Trump's quoted line treats that as a shared, mutual preference for peace -- like describing a break-in as "both the homeowner and the burglar want this resolved." * France 24 didn't invent the quote. Trump said it, on the record, and reporting what a president says at a summit is the job. That's not the issue. * The issue is what the headline chose to lead with, and what it left for readers to already know on their own. "Both sides want it settled" reads like consensus. It isn't one. It's one man's characterization of a war where, the night before, only one side was doing the killing. * Al Jazeera's headline made the dead the subject. France 24's headline made a diplomatic guess the subject. Both are technically accurate. Only one tells you who actually has a body count attached to their name this week.