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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of Zelenskyy's Washington visit was largely uniform across outlets, with a bias spread of just 0.0 points and no meaningful ideological divergence to identify. All three headlines adopted straightforward, factual framing: NPR led with Zelenskyy's own characterization of a "good meeting," attributing the positive assessment directly to him rather than editorializing; NeutralNews used a compound descriptive construction noting that "Trump Holds Separate White House Meetings With Zelenskyy and Netanyahu"; and Axios, notably, pivoted to a related but distinct diplomatic moment, reporting that "Netanyahu confronts Vance over his criticism of Israeli government." None of the headlines employed charged language, selective emphasis, or framing devices associated with partisan lean. The shared approach across outlets was to report the diplomatic events as straightforward occurrences, letting quoted language or plain action verbs carry the narrative without ideological loading.