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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this FAA equipment outage was remarkably uniform across all outlets, with a bias spread of just 0.0 points and no meaningful ideological framing detected in any headline. Every outlet relied on straightforward, factual language to describe the disruption: Fox News used "grounds planes at major airports for hours," CBS News chose "disrupted due to equipment outage, FAA says," NBC opted for "flights delayed out of Newark and Philadelphia after FAA orders ground stops," and NeutralNews identified the specific technical cause with "cut fiber line halts flights." The primary difference across headlines was level of detail rather than ideological framing — some named specific airports, others cited the FAA as a source, and NeutralNews alone identified the cut fiber line as the cause. No outlet employed loaded language, assigned blame politically, or adopted a partisan tone. Readers across the spectrum received substantively equivalent factual reporting.