18 sources checked · Left, Center, and Right included · 3h ago
Headlines vary from general search reports to specific details about the number of missing people and the ship's capsizing.
DIFFERENT SPIN
HOW EACH SIDE WORDED IT
As of September 13, 2026 at 8:08 AM, this is how Optics News reads the wording differences in this story.
18 sources across Left, Center, and Right all describe the same event.
70/99 — meaningful wording shift across the spectrum.
WHAT EACH SIDE EMPHASIZED
CBS News · Center-left · News report
WDSU New Orleans (Hearst) · Center · News report
The Jerusalem Post · Center-right · News report
SEE THE HEADLINES
Indonesian rescuers have launched a search operation after a passenger ship carrying at least 240 people lost contact in the Java Sea
The Indonesian passenger ship carrying 243 people was reported missing after losing contact early on Sunday during bad weather.
Indonesian rescuers launched a search operation after authorities lost contact with a passenger ship carrying more than 240 people in the Java Sea.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian rescuers said about 140 passengers and crew were missing after a ferry carrying more than 240 people overturned in bad weather in the Java Sea on Sunday...
Indonesian rescuers say about 140 passengers and crew were missing after a ferry carrying more than 240 people overturned in bad weather in the Java Sea
AT least one person has died and a further 140 passengers are still missing from a stricken Indonesian passenger ferry. Rescuers lost contact with the Virgo Transport 8 ship, which was carr...
AT least one person has died and a further 140 passengers are still missing from a stricken Indonesian passenger ferry. Rescuers lost contact with the Virgo Transport 8 ship, which was carr...
Communication has been lost with an Indonesian passenger ship carrying more than 240 people after it encountered bad weather in the Java Sea.
More than 100 others on board were evacuated from the Virgo Transport 8 ship, including one who died Indonesian rescuers were searching on Sunday for 140 people from a passenger ship that...
Indonesian rescuers have launched a search operation after a passenger ship carrying more than 240 people lost contact in the Java Sea while traveling from East Java to South Kalimantan on...
The ship had departed from Surabaya, Indonesia’s second largest city in East Java province, en route to Banjarmasin.
The Virgo Transport 8 vanished crossing the Java Sea with 240 people aboard en route from Surabaya to Banjarmasin, triggering an urgent search.
The Virgo Transport 8 experienced a communication failure in the Java Sea on Sunday - an operation is now underway to try and locate more than 240 people
Around 140 people are still missing after a passenger ship in Indonesia carrying more than 240 people lost contact in the Java Sea during bad weather, officials say.
Indonesian rescuers were searching on Sunday for 140 people from a passenger ship that sank in the Java Sea after 103 others were evacuated, one of whom died, a search and rescue agency of...
Indonesian rescuers launched a search operation Sunday after a passenger ship carrying at least 240 people lost contact in the Java Sea while traveling from East Java to South Kalimantan on...
An Indonesian passenger ship Virgo Transport 8 carrying about 240 people lost contact in the Java Sea while en route from Surabaya to Banjarmasin, triggering a rescue operation with no imme...
Indonesian rescuers have launched a search operation after a passenger ship carrying more than 240 people lost contact in the Java Sea while traveling from East Java to South Kalimantan on...
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Now: Wording Gap is 70/99 and story health is stable · 32 sources · all three buckets · comparable news format.