Two bombs went off in Damascus on Tuesday, wounding 18 people, while Emmanuel Macron was in town for the first EU head-of-state visit to Syria since Assad fell. * Fox's headline: "Video shows bomb rock Damascus hotel where French President Macron is staying during Syrian state visit." Read it again. It's engineered to make you picture the French president ducking under a table. * BBC just said what happened: "Explosions injure 18 in Damascus during Emmanuel Macron's visit." No hotel-adjacent theatrics, no implied close call. Location, casualty count, occasion. Done. * Here's what Fox's framing quietly skips: Macron wasn't at the hotel. He'd already left for the Presidential Palace to meet Syria's Ahmed al-Sharaa when the devices went off. Syria's Interior Ministry said the blast site was outside his security perimeter and posed "no direct threat to the residence or the official visit program, which is proceeding as planned" — security forces had already found both devices before they detonated during a disposal attempt. * CNN and France 24 landed in the same lane as the BBC: "Explosion near Macron's Damascus hotel as French president meets Syrian counterpart," "Explosions rock Damascus on second day of Macron's visit to Syria." Description, not a movie trailer. * We get it — "bomb near the hotel where the president is staying" scrolls better than "bomb goes off, president fine, was somewhere else entirely." But there's a gap between a headline that's exciting and one that's just wrong about where the danger actually was.