Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, 41, died Saturday at a Newark hospital after a medical emergency at Delaney Hall, the privately run ICE detention facility in New Jersey. That's the event. Now watch three newsrooms introduce the same dead man. * Fox News: "ICE detainee who illegally re-entered US after deportation dies at Delaney Hall." Before you reach the verb — before you learn a human being died — you've been handed his immigration record. The subheadline doubles down: deported in 2006, re-entered illegally, arrested in June. Fox's opening sentence runs the same play: "A 41-year-old Salvadoran national who re-entered the United States illegally has died in federal custody." The relative clause gets to speak first. The death waits its turn. * CNN went with: "Man in Delaney Hall ICE custody dies after 'medical emergency.'" Notice the quotation marks around 'medical emergency' — that's CNN holding the official explanation with tongs, at arm's length, because the official cause of death is still pending. Al Jazeera: "Salvadoran man dies in ICE custody at New Jersey detention centre." A man, where he was, what happened. His file can wait until paragraph three. * Credit where it's due: Fox's actual article is more complete than the headline suggests. It tells you this is the second death at Delaney Hall in under a year — Jean Wilson Brutus died last December, less than 24 hours after entering the facility — and it quotes Newark Mayor Ras Baraka calling the death "a heartbreaking reminder of the consequences of a facility that has operated for far too long without adequate oversight, accountability or transparency." It's all in there. Below the fold. After the rap sheet. * Here's the thing about that headline structure: it's not really Fox's writing. It's ICE's. The agency's custody-death announcements read like charge sheets with a death notice attached — every violation dated and numbered, the medical emergency a footnote. Fox took the press release's frame and promoted it to a headline. CNN took the same release and put its key phrase in skeptical quotes. Same input, opposite instincts. * Why it matters: a headline that opens with the dead man's offenses is answering a question nobody asked — "did he deserve to be there?" — instead of the one the story raises: why do people keep dying at this particular facility? Two deaths, one year, one building. However you feel about immigration enforcement, that second question is the news. The first one is just a way of clearing the room before anyone asks it.