Fox's headline on Friday's UN vote, in full: "United Nations votes 164-1 for Equal Earth map after US brands it 'radical ideological project.'" One hundred sixty-four countries voted to fix the world map. Fox's headline hands the microphone to the one that didn't. * The one-sentence background you need: the UN General Assembly voted to retire the Mercator projection — drawn in 1569, brilliant for sailing, catastrophic for proportions. It makes Greenland look about the size of Africa. Africa is roughly fourteen times bigger. That's the whole scandal being corrected here: a map that was wrong is being swapped for one that isn't. * And here's the fun part — Fox's own article agrees. Its first paragraphs explain, in Fox's words, that the new projection "depicts countries and continents in their true relative sizes." The body reads like a patient geography teacher. The headline reads like a press statement from the delegation that just lost 164-1. * The quote Fox promoted to the headline slot is genuinely something. The US deputy representative called the resolution "an anodyne effort to update cartographic proportions" that is really part of "a much larger and more radical ideological project," and said resolutions like this one "are barnacles on our work here." Barnacles. In a debate about a map of, among other things, the ocean. * Now check the neighbors. NPR's headline: "The U.N. backs a new world map showing Africa in its true relative size" — the map is the star. The Washington Post led with the map too, and filed the US as "sole objector," a fact, not a frame. Al Jazeera ran "UN votes to adopt new world map that reflects Africa's true size" and told it as the correction of a centuries-old distortion. Same vote, same numbers, and only one newsroom decided the news wasn't the map — it was the insult aimed at it. * Togo's foreign minister had the line of the day: "A fair map does not change the geography of the world; it changes how we see the world." Which, as it happens, is also exactly how headlines work.