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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this Ebola outbreak was largely uniform across outlets, with a bias spread of just one point separating the most- and least-neutral headlines. Most reporting adopted a straightforward wire-service style, exemplified by CBC's "Congo says death toll in fastest-growing Ebola outbreak has passed 1,500," which uses attribution and plain language. The modest divergence comes from Breitbart's choice of the verb "Swamps Congo" and the urgency-amplifying construction "Death Toll Hits 1,500+," which scorers flagged as leaning toward dramatic disaster framing compared to the more measured alternatives. The Telegraph contributed two factual headlines — one on clinic arsons noting that "misinformation spirals," and one framing vaccine funding as a straightforward financial development — neither of which introduced ideological loading. In short, the framing differences here are subtle word-choice variations in intensity rather than any meaningful ideological divide.