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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of the Pacific Northwest wildfire story was largely uniform across outlets, with a bias spread of just 0.0 points separating the most left- and right-leaning headlines. Both the New York Post and the Los Angeles Times employed straightforward, factual language with no detectable ideological signals. Notably, the two headlines address somewhat different geographic angles — the Post focused directly on the Pacific Northwest fires with the descriptor "unprecedented" (flagged by scorers as a factual rather than ideological term) and the active phrase "blazes rage on," while the Times covered a related but distinct heat wave story affecting Southern California, using colloquial but non-partisan language such as "doozy." Neither outlet framed the events through a political or climate-policy lens. Readers should be aware that the shared neutral framing reflects a factual, event-driven approach rather than any meaningful ideological divergence.