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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform, with most outlets adopting straightforward, wire-style language. Al Jazeera's two headlines exemplify the dominant neutral register, using plain verbs like "spread" and "tackles" with no ideological loading. The modest exception is the Daily Mail, whose headline introduces contrast framing absent elsewhere: by juxtaposing Macron being "blasted for dancing at a Celine Dion concert with Brigitte" against the claim that "more than 160 are arrested while France burns in riots," the outlet implies a critique of elite disconnection from civil unrest. The phrases "blasted," "burns," and "riots" carry more emotive charge than the neutral "protests" used by Al Jazeera. Even so, with a bias spread of just 0.5 points across scored outlets, the overall framing gap is narrow, and the difference is largely one of tone and personalization rather than a meaningful ideological divide.