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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of Hayden Panettiere's death was remarkably uniform across all four outlets, with a bias spread of 0.0 points and no meaningful ideological divide to identify. Every headline treated the story as a straightforward factual report, differing only in minor stylistic choices rather than framing or emphasis. BBC and NBC anchored their headlines in authoritative sourcing — "autopsy shows" and "coroner says" respectively — while NeutralNews employed similar wire-style attribution with "coroner rules." Fox News was the only outlet to withhold the specific cause from its headline, using the vaguer phrase "cause of death revealed," though this reads as a presentational choice rather than an ideological signal. All outlets used neutral verbs, none introduced policy commentary or emotional language, and none framed fentanyl in any broader political context. Readers across these sources received substantively identical factual information.