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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of Pope Leo XIV's Paris visit was remarkably uniform across all outlets, with a bias spread of 0.0 points reflecting near-identical neutral framing. Every headline relied on straightforward factual verbs — CBS News used "attracts," the Chicago Tribune used "attend," and NBC used "draws" — with no ideological loading detected in any case. Attendance figures were cited plainly, sourced to the Vatican or presented as estimates, without language inflating or minimizing the crowd's significance. The only notable editorial variation was NBC's inclusion of the Pope's warning about AI as an "paradise of machines," which introduced a secondary thematic element absent from other headlines but was itself characterized by scorers as factual quotation rather than framing. No outlet emphasized religious, political, or cultural angles in ways that diverged meaningfully from the others.