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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of Tropical Storm Edouard across all sampled outlets was remarkably uniform, with a bias spread of just 0.0 points and no meaningful ideological divide to report. Every headline treated the story as a straightforward weather event, relying on neutral, factual language: USA Today described how the storm "forms in Gulf, prompts hurricane watch," the Houston Chronicle focused on local logistics such as storm timelines and school closures, and ABC offered a plain forecast update. The sole minor scoring difference involved Breitbart receiving a slight +0.5 from one scorer, attributable only to the phrase "Brace for Impact" — a common, dramatic-but-apolitical weather idiom — rather than any ideological signal. No outlet introduced policy arguments, blamed political figures, or framed the storm through a partisan lens. Readers across the political spectrum received essentially the same factual picture of an approaching Gulf Coast storm.