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How the coverage framed it

Coverage was largely uniform across the outlets, with scores clustered within a 0.1-point range near zero and no meaningful left-right divergence. Headlines relied on straightforward financial and regulatory phrasing, such as CNBC’s “Boeing posts bigger loss than expected as Air Force One costs weigh on results” and Yahoo Finance’s “Boeing posts larger-than-expected Q2 loss as Air Force One costs rise,” both presenting quarterly results through neutral earnings language. CNN’s “Seats on hundreds of Boeing 737 MAX jets were incorrectly installed, FAA says” adopted similar factual regulatory wording. All three avoided evaluative or ideological terms, limiting themselves to direct descriptors like “bigger loss,” “larger-than-expected,” and “FAA says.” This produced a shared neutral framing centered on documented losses and compliance issues without interpretive framing.