Taking ‘We Report, You Decide’ to a New Level

My favorite detail in today’s New York Times
piece about the fear of ISIS conspiracies along the
U.S.-Mexican border:

Fox News itself has covered the threats in different
ways. After senior administration officials testified at a Senate
hearing last week about ISIS, an
article on FoxNews.com
about the testimony ran under the headline “D.H.S. Confirms ISIS
Planning Infiltration of U.S. Southern Border.” An
article on Fox News Latino about the same hearing had the
headline: “ISIS Terrorists Not Sneaking Over U.S. Southern Border
With Mexico, D.H.S. Officials Tell Congress.”

For the record: The second headline is the more accurate one
(though if you want to be a stickler, the DHS’s statements were
closer to We have no credible evidence of such
sneaking than No such sneaking exists). The
first piece (a
reprint from the Washington Free Beacon) rests on a
reference to “social media exchanges among ISIL adherents across
the globe” in which such border crossings are discussed as “a
possibility.” Someone just defined planning
infiltration down.