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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of the Amazon cargo plane crash at Miami's runway was remarkably uniform across all four outlets, with a bias spread of just 0.0 points and every headline scored at precisely neutral. Rather than ideological framing, each outlet pursued a distinct factual angle on the same event: the Miami Herald focused on cockpit warnings, quoting the specific phrases "too fast" and "too low" attributed to NTSB findings; the AP similarly highlighted that "a pilot warned it was coming in too fast"; ABC centered on the procedural step of the NTSB releasing the cockpit voice recorder readout; and NBC shifted focus to the human and legal aftermath, noting that a "wife of man killed" had filed a "wrongful death lawsuit." No outlet introduced politically loaded language, and all relied on institutional sourcing such as the NTSB. The differences reflect editorial choices about narrative emphasis — safety data, investigation process, or victim impact — rather than any measurable ideological divide.