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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this Federal Reserve rate decision was remarkably uniform across outlets, with a bias spread of 0.0 points and every headline scoring at the ideological center. Rather than a left-right divide, the variation here is purely one of editorial angle: some outlets focused on consumer impact ("how it affects your mortgages," per Newsweek), others on institutional process (NBC's "faces key test" framing around Chair Kevin Warsh), and others on market and economic context (the Financial Times noting borrowing costs hit "a 19-year high," the Wall Street Journal framing the story around market signals). None of these framings carry detectable ideological loading; they reflect standard journalistic choices between policy explainer, accountability, and data-driven approaches. Readers across this outlet range received factually consistent, neutrally worded coverage of the same underlying event.