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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform across outlets, with a bias spread of exactly 0.0 points and no meaningful ideological divide to report. All three outlets treated the crash as a straightforward news event, using factual, unembellished language to convey the death toll and location. The shared neutral framing centered on direct descriptors like "kills all nine aboard" (NeutralNews) and "killed 9" (Boston Globe). The most notable stylistic difference was not ideological but editorial: Fox News chose to humanize the story by profiling one victim — referencing an "Austin tech founder" and a "$10M business milestone" — while Boston Globe adopted a forward-looking investigative angle with "What's next in the investigation," and NeutralNews stuck to a plain account of the immediate facts. These are differences in storytelling approach rather than political framing.