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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of Tiger Woods's plea deal and driving ban was remarkably uniform across all three outlets, with a bias spread of exactly 0.0 points. Each headline relied on plain, factual language to convey the same core facts: a plea entered, and a five-year driving ban imposed. BBC used straightforward transactional verbs — "changes plea" and "gets ban" — while Fox News framed the event around the legal mechanism with "strikes plea deal," a similarly neutral wire-service construction. NeutralNews was the most explicit about the specific charge, noting Woods "pleads to reckless driving" and "loses license," adding marginally more legal detail without any evaluative coloring. None of the outlets employed loaded language, dramatic framing, or ideologically suggestive context. Readers across these sources would have received essentially the same factual picture, differentiated only by minor word choices rather than any discernible political or editorial slant.