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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform, with a bias spread of just 0.0 points across the two outlets, though modest framing differences are worth noting at the headline level. The Hill took the more straightforward approach, quoting Massie's term "coconspirators" with distancing quotation marks and pairing it with a reference to "legislation," keeping the focus on Massie's actions as a lawmaker. The New York Post leaned slightly more sensational, opening with the loaded descriptor "Disgraced ex-Prince Andrew" and stating that named individuals "'committed sex crimes in the US,'" which presents the allegation with somewhat more rhetorical weight than The Hill's more neutral framing. Neither outlet strays far from factual reporting, but the Post's choice of charged language around specific named individuals gives its headline a marginally more dramatic register compared to The Hill's procedural, attribution-focused framing.