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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform, with a bias spread of just 1.0 point across outlets. The Associated Press and Washington Post framed the story in straightforwardly factual terms, using neutral language like "cancels planned Met Gala exhibit amid backlash" and reporting simply that Galliano "pulls out of show," without assigning blame or moral weight to any party. The sole departure came from The Free Press, which leaned modestly toward a sympathetic-to-Galliano, critical-of-the-cancellation framing. Its headline "John Galliano Has Paid for His Crimes. Will Anna Wintour?" implies that the cancellation was unjust given Galliano's prior accountability, while casting Wintour as a party yet to face consequences. A companion headline calling the episode "Anna Wintour's Galliano Disaster" further frames the Met's decision as a failure attributable to Wintour personally. These differences in tone are notable but modest, and the overall spread across outlets remains narrow.