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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was remarkably uniform across all outlets, with a bias spread of exactly 0.0 points. Every headline adopted a straightforward, wire-service style focused on the core facts: survivors were pulled from debris days after the floods. The shared framing emphasized the rescue action itself — phrases like "pull 2 people alive from the debris" (AP) and "rescuers pull Chinese worker, Nepali woman from flood wreckage alive" (Al Jazeera) — with neutral, active verbs and no ideological coloring. The Washington Post grounded its headline in elapsed time ("9 days after deadly Nepal floods"), while Al Jazeera added a secondary human-interest angle by noting that relatives held "cremations without bodies for Nepal's missing flood victims," a factual and empathetic but politically inert framing. No outlet introduced blame, policy commentary, or loaded language. The story was treated uniformly as a humanitarian event.