If you've been following our FIFA file — the 55-0 European boycott vote, the plan to sell World Cup stakes to private investors, the September deadline hanging over all of it — here's this morning's installment. NPR's headline, running AP's wire copy: "Gianni Infantino gets internal support at crisis meeting to remain as FIFA president." * Now ask the question the headline hopes you won't: internal support from whom? From the article itself: FIFA's secretary-general and "members of the management board in attendance" at the meeting in Rabat "reaffirmed their full support" for the president. Those are his employees. The sourcing for the survival is FIFA's own statement about FIFA's own meeting about FIFA's own boss. A man does not, historically, lose a show of hands among people he can reassign to the Zurich parking office. * The body of the piece — and credit to AP, it's all in there — makes the support even funnier. The same secretary-general emailed all FIFA staff days ago calling the selloff saga a "sad and reproachable series of events." Now: full support. And in return, the statement notes, Infantino "reaffirmed his support for his secretary general." Two men in Morocco, supporting each other, in a press release either of them could have written. That's not a resolution of the crisis. That's a hug with letterhead. * Then there's FIFA's apology grammar, quoted straight: "mistakes made were acknowledged," the "process should have been handled differently." Made by whom? Handled by whom? The $20 billion selloff plan had an author; his name is in the headline getting supported. 'Mistakes were made' is the oldest passive-voice trick in institutional PR, and every outlet that prints it without a raised eyebrow is doing the laundering for free. * Meanwhile, the people who don't work for Infantino spent the same day saying the opposite. UEFA: the boycott of FIFA competitions stays, U-turn or no U-turn — Al Jazeera's headline kept that as the story: "UEFA says FIFA boycott remains despite Infantino World Cup selloff U-turn." The European leagues called the plan "dangerous" and demanded governance reform. Luis Figo said he'd "debased the office." And buried near the bottom: FIFA denying a British media report that Infantino had dangled the 2030 World Cup final to Morocco in exchange for support — a denied claim, to be clear, but notice it's the exact shape of the question the headline never asks: what does 'support' cost at a meeting like this? * So the day's real ledger: employees for, federations against, boycott intact, deadline ticking. Out of that, the headline chose the one column where Infantino wins — the one his own comms office typed. The crisis meeting existed to manufacture a survival headline. It shipped on time.