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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 exactly 0.0 points. Each headline adopted a straightforward, wire-service tone focused on factual description of the disruption and its resolution. The slight framing variation that does exist is purely structural rather than ideological: neutralnews emphasized the cause by leading with "Cut Fiber Line Halts Flights," centering the technical origin of the outage, while CNBC and the New York Post focused on the resolution, using language like "ease" and "resume" to signal that the situation was improving. None of the headlines introduced political actors, assigned blame beyond the technical cause, or used emotionally charged language. The shared neutral framing across outlets — factual verbs, geographic specificity, and a focus on operational impact — reflects a story that generated no meaningful partisan interpretive divide.