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Nine people, including children, dead after mass shooting in Pennsylvania

Authorities say suspect among dead in house after standoff with police in Erie and there is no ongoing threat Nine people, including children, died in a mass murder on Friday in Erie, Pennsylvania , after a gun-wielding attacker opened fire outside a home and then entered the property, according to

Associated Press

What the coverage shows

Both outlets frame the story as a deadly Pennsylvania shooting with multiple victims, and both rely on brief official reaction rather than detailed reporting. Fox News alone foregrounds the claim that the suspected gunman was found dead in its headline, while Newsweek instead leads with “devastating” in its own headline and quotes Mayor Daria Devlin calling it a “terrible tragedy.” Fox also uniquely includes Erie Police Chief Rick Lorah’s description of the scene as the worst he has seen in nearly three decades.

Written by Crossfiled from the 4 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.

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