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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 just 0.5 points separating the most left-leaning from the most right-leaning headline. All outlets relied on neutral, factual verbs — the *New York Times* used "investigating," while the *Wall Street Journal* and *Financial Times* both chose "probes" — without introducing loaded adjectives or ideological framing. The most notable, and minor, distinction is that the *Times* omitted the word "suspension" from its headline, whereas the *Journal* explicitly referenced the "suspension of Trump press-pool coverage," a phrasing that adds slightly more context about the networks' actions. Scorers flagged this omission as marginally sympathetic to the networks, accounting for the small score difference. Otherwise, the headlines share a wire-service tone, treating the story as a straightforward government investigation without editorializing in either direction.