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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform across all four outlets, with a bias spread of just 0.0 points. Every headline framed the incident in straightforwardly factual terms, differing only in minor structural choices rather than ideological slant. USA Today used the construction "dies after entering," which slightly softens the sequence of events, while NBC opted for the more direct "Tiger kills man who entered its enclosure," placing the tiger's action as the grammatical subject. ABC similarly led with the tiger's action — "Man attacked by tiger after entering enclosure" — while Sky News added a police-sourced detail, noting the victim "was visiting alone," lending its headline a slightly more investigative tone. None of these differences reflect political framing; they represent ordinary editorial variation in verb choice and detail selection, all anchored in neutral, factual reportage.