Iran struck three commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz this week. The US responded with strikes on more than 80 targets inside Iran and reimposed oil sanctions. Iran then hit US bases in Bahrain and Kuwait. Trump told reporters at the NATO summit the ceasefire is "over" — Iran's leaders are "scum," he said, "sick people." * Fox's headline: "Trump says Iran ceasefire is 'over' after Iranian attacks trigger massive US response." Read that as a flowchart: Iran acts, US reacts, ceasefire dies. One link in the chain. * NPR's headline, same day, same story: "Tehran targets Bahrain and Kuwait after U.S. strikes." Different flowchart. US acts, Iran reacts. * Both are true. There were two separate strikes in this chain — Iran hit ships, the US hit back with 80+ targets, Iran hit Bahrain and Kuwait. Fox's headline opens on the first link. NPR's opens on the second. Neither is lying. Each just quietly chose which country gets to be holding the smoking gun when the story starts. * The Washington Post skipped the flowchart entirely and led with Trump's own mouth: "Trump says ceasefire with Iran is over, calling its leaders 'scum.'" No blame math, just the quote — he did the talking, so the Post let him. * Three headlines, three different lead characters for the same 24 hours: Iran the aggressor, the US the aggressor, or Trump having a moment. Nobody's fabricating anything. They're just picking where a messy chain of events officially "begins" — and that choice does more work than most readers ever clock.