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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform across outlets, with a bias spread of just 1.0 points and most headlines scored at or near zero by both scorers. CNN, CNBC, and Reuters all used plain, wire-style language — phrases like "leads to ground stop," "flights disrupted," and "fiber line cut at construction site" — keeping the focus squarely on the mechanical cause and its operational consequences. The one modest outlier was The Guardian, which scored slightly left of center by one scorer, not through political framing but through an editorial choice to append "watchdog warns over hacking threat" to its headline. This addition introduces a secondary alarm — a cybersecurity concern distinct from the actual fiber cut — that the other outlets did not raise. That phrase shifts emphasis from a straightforward infrastructure accident toward a broader threat narrative, though the difference is minor and the core factual framing remains consistent across all outlets.