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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform across all three outlets, with a bias spread of just 0.0 points and no detectable ideological framing from any source. CNN and AP produced nearly identical headlines — "Search underway for about 130 people after Indonesian passenger ship/ferry overturns" — differing only in their choice of vessel descriptor ("passenger ship" versus "ferry"), a factual rather than editorial distinction. Sky News took a modestly different structural approach by leading with the confirmed death toll ("Six dead") before noting the 130 missing, foregrounding casualty figures rather than the active search. This represents a difference in editorial prioritization of known facts rather than any ideological lean. All outlets used the neutral verb "overturns," avoided emotive or politically charged language, and relied on straightforward wire-style framing, reflecting standard disaster-reporting conventions with no meaningful divergence in tone or perspective.