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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of the Nepal flash floods was largely uniform across all outlets, with a bias spread of 0.0 points and no discernible ideological divide between any of them. The shared neutral framing centered on factual disaster reporting: death tolls ("at least 22 killed"), missing persons counts, and straightforward descriptions of the event's cause and scope. Where outlets differed, the variation was stylistic rather than political. Wire services like AP and Reuters used restrained, precise language — "avalanche triggers deadly flash floods" and "what triggered the catastrophic flood" — while the Daily Mail employed more visceral descriptive phrases such as "30-mile torrent of destruction" and "people try to outrun certain death." These choices reflect tabloid versus wire-service editorial conventions, not ideological positioning. Scorers noted that even the Daily Mail's vivid language carried no political framing, making this a rare story where sensationalism of tone did not translate into bias of perspective.