France 24 can count 500 school closures. On West Bank drones it won’t tell you who’s counting anything.

France 24 reports that lessons will be “totally or partly suspended” at up to 500 French high schools on Monday, and that 24 schools have been “burned or ransacked” since protests began — figures attributed to the education minister.

That’s ledger prose. Numbers. Discrete acts. An accountable speaker.

In the same day’s coverage of drone use in the occupied West Bank, France 24 writes that “Palestinians and activists report” drones are used to “intimidate,” “monitor,” and “make daily life increasingly difficult.”

Maybe they are. But as written, the piece asks you to take the moral conclusion on trust while withholding the minimum handles that would let a reader weigh it:

• Who is doing the reporting (which organisation? which monitor? whose documentation)?
• As of when?
• Where, specifically?
• One concrete incident you can point to and argue about.

The problem isn’t that one story has numbers and the other has adjectives. It’s that France 24 demonstrates it can do procedure — and then, on a claim that most needs it, switches to atmosphere-as-authority.

That move doesn’t make the drones story false. It makes it unauditable. And unauditable moral language is how institutions keep their hands clean while still landing their punch.