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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform across outlets, with a bias spread of just one point separating the most left-leaning from the most right-leaning headline. The shared framing across most outlets treated the story as a procedural matter, using neutral language such as Reuters' "hold inquiry" and CNBC's "appoints committee." The modest variation that does exist lies in contextual additions rather than charged vocabulary. Al Jazeera's use of "launches probe" reads as slightly more loaded than the wire-style alternatives, while at the other end, Politico's inclusion of "potentially remove" introduces a mild note of alarm about consequences. The Boston Globe occupies a middle position, adding the phrase "latest effort to fire her," which provides contextual history without adopting overtly alarmed language. None of the outlets employed strongly partisan framing, and the differences reflect choices about how much context to include rather than any fundamental disagreement about how to characterize the action itself.