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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform across outlets, with a bias spread of just 0.0 points separating the most left-leaning from the most right-leaning headlines. All three outlets employed straightforward, factual language: Fox News led with "arrested on arson charge," the AP used "charged with setting" and "questioned about," and Newsweek focused on the disaster itself with "live tracker" and "neighborhoods destroyed." Rather than reflecting ideological framing differences, the variation among headlines is purely one of editorial focus — Fox News and the AP centered the criminal charge against the individual, while Newsweek emphasized real-time disaster coverage for readers following the fire's progression. None of the headlines introduced politically loaded language, assigned broader social or policy meaning to the event, or framed the suspect's identity in ideologically suggestive ways. The shared neutral framing reflects standard breaking-news and wire-service conventions.