Quick background, one sentence: after a Spanish Supreme Court ruling on sea arrivals, roughly 60,000 people crossed from Morocco into the tiny Spanish enclave of Ceuta this week, and by Friday it was Europe's biggest story. Day one, we graded the verbs — 'overrun,' 'swarm.' Day two is where the framing really settles in, because day two is when outlets decide what the story is now about. * Euronews decided it's about a number: "At least 50,000 migrants cross into Spanish territory of Ceuta from Morocco in a single day." That's the whole headline — a turnstile counter. Who they are, why this week, what happened to them on the way: all for the click, none for the front. * The BBC and France 24 decided it's about a politician. BBC: "Spain's PM blames traffickers after 60,000 migrants reach Ceuta from Morocco." France 24: "Spain's PM blames trafficking mafia for ongoing Ceuta migrant crisis." Welcome to the day-two genre we'd call the blame market. Sánchez blames "trafficking mafias" for taking "a self-serving interpretation of a Supreme Court ruling." Italy blames Spain, and suspends Schengen with it. Spain summons Italy's ambassador and blames Rome for playing politics. Every actor in the drama gets to be the subject of a sentence — except the people the drama happened to. * And then there's the one number that can't get billing: the dead. The BBC has it in paragraph two — "at least 57 people died during the surge, according to local media." Euronews has it deep in its piece — 43, "police sources said." Neither figure is in anyone's headline, and notice they don't even match. The crossing count got rounded to the nearest ten thousand and printed in the largest available font. The death count is still wobbling between two sources, several paragraphs down. You can tell what a newsroom is fact-checking hardest by where it's willing to print a number in bold. * The strangest part is that the most human material is already sitting inside these same articles. Euronews's own reporting has people walking through Ceuta's streets calling out "Bye bye Morocco, hello Spain," police mostly standing aside, officers pointing new arrivals toward the reception centre. That's a scene — specific, alive, complicated. The headline above it is a number. And standing in front of it all is Sánchez, describing the week as a "violation of Spain's territorial integrity" — the grammar of an invasion, deployed against people who arrived on foot. * Day one was verb trouble. Day two is subject trouble. If the pattern holds, by day three the people this actually happened to won't be in the story at all — just the ministers arguing about whose fault they were.