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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of Thaci's conviction was essentially uniform across both outlets, with a bias spread of 0.0 points. CNN and Al Jazeera each anchored their headlines in straightforward legal verdict language — CNN's "convicts" and "sentences him to 25 years" and Al Jazeera's "guilty of war crimes" both relay the court's findings without editorial coloring, victim-centered framing, or ideological context. The primary difference between the two headlines is structural rather than ideological: CNN specifies the institution ("Hague court") and the sentence length ("25 years"), offering more procedural detail, while Al Jazeera's formulation is shorter and relies on the adjective "guilty" rather than the active verb "convicts." Neither choice introduces discernible slant. Readers across these outlets would receive substantively the same factual picture of the verdict.