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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this Ebola story was largely uniform across outlets, with a bias spread of just 0.0 points and all headlines scored at or near neutral. Rather than reflecting ideological framing differences, the variation across headlines instead reflects differences in editorial focus. CNN emphasized the outbreak's epidemiological scale with the phrase "surges to second-largest on record," offering a straightforward quantitative benchmark. The Telegraph's two headlines took distinct angles: one highlighted the social breakdown accompanying the crisis — "arsonists torch more Ebola clinics as misinformation spirals" — where "spirals" carries a mildly heightened tone but remains factually grounded; the other focused on the funding and scientific response with "Race for vaccine against new Ebola strain gets $8.5m boost." None of these framings reflect left-right ideological positioning; the differences are thematic rather than political, centering on scale, social disorder, and institutional response respectively.