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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform across outlets, with a bias spread of just 0.5 points separating the most left-leaning from the most right-leaning headline. The majority of outlets — including Axios, Politico, and the Washington Examiner — used plain, wire-style language such as "orders," "extends order restoring," and "extends access indefinitely," offering straightforward descriptions of the judicial action without ideological framing. The only modest exception was the Boston Globe, which phrased the ruling as "blocking Trump from banning" reporters — language that centers Trump as an active aggressor against the press rather than describing the court's action in neutral terms. That phrasing introduces a slightly adversarial framing absent from the other headlines, but the difference is minor. Readers encountering any of these headlines would receive essentially the same factual account of the judge's decision.