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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of the Amazon cargo plane crash at Miami airport was remarkably uniform across the political spectrum, with a bias spread of just 0.0 points and all outlets clustering at or very near center. The dominant framing across CNN, NBC, Fox News, the AP, and the Miami Herald was straightforwardly factual: identifying victims, reporting flight data, and describing the sequence of events. The AP focused on technical detail — "tried to abort unsteady landing" and "flight data indicates" — while CNN similarly emphasized investigative findings from the black box. Fox News and NBC concentrated on victim identification. The only mild variation appeared in one Miami Herald headline noting that "ex-pilots for cargo company in MIA crash had concerns about safety: documents," which signals slightly more scrutiny toward the cargo operator, though even this was framed in restrained, document-sourced language. No outlet applied ideological or partisan framing to the story.