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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of New York City's AI ban in elementary and middle schools was remarkably uniform across outlets, with a bias spread of just 0.0 points — effectively no measurable ideological divergence. Both Politico and the Boston Globe relied on plain, factual language to describe the policy. Politico's phrasing — "NYC school system to ban AI for elementary, middle school students" — reads as a straightforward wire-service report, while the Boston Globe's construction — "AI largely to be banned in NYC elementary and middle schools" — introduced only the mild qualifier "largely," which signals a factual nuance about scope rather than any ideological lean. Neither headline employed charged language, advocacy framing, or emphasis designed to cast the ban in a positive or negative light. Readers across these outlets received essentially the same neutral, descriptive account of the story.