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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of Harvey Weinstein's sentencing was remarkably uniform across all three outlets, producing a bias spread of exactly 0.0 points. Each headline converged on the same core factual structure: a named subject, a passive legal verb ("sentenced"), a specific term ("15 years"), and a descriptor of the charge. The Washington Examiner led with "sentenced to 15 years in sexual assault retrial," the Boston Globe added jurisdictional and temporal context with "for 2006 sex crime in New York," and Sky News used the most compressed construction, "sentenced to 15 years for sexual assault." None of the headlines elevated victim or perpetrator perspective, employed charged language, or introduced interpretive framing. The minor differences that do exist — such as the Globe's inclusion of the year and location — reflect wire-service convention rather than ideological positioning. Readers across these outlets received substantively identical framing of the story.