<![CDATA[Background: Online news framing provides interpretive cues that may relate to how digital publics respond to political and institutional events. Purpose: This study examines the relationship between interpretive cues in online news coverage and public responses to the August 2025 resignation announcement of the president director of PT Agrinas Pangan Nusantara. Methods: A two-phase qualitative content analysis with descriptive frequencies examined 33 articles from six Indonesian national online media outlets (11 August–17 September 2025) using Entman's framing framework and 244 replies on X (11–13 August 2025) using codebook and lexical analysis. Results: Administrative or budget-related problem definitions appeared in 30.3% of articles, while two-thirds were morally neutral. No articles used explicit structural-ideological vocabulary. On X, 32.0% of replies appreciated the director and 47.1% criticised or distrusted officials and institutions, while administrative-cue vocabulary appeared in 7.8% of replies and explicit structural-ideological vocabulary in 1.6%. None mentioned feudalism. Conclusion: The proposed concept of interpretive boundary, examined through echo, extension, and exceedance, suggests that news framing was porous to moral evaluations but largely resistant to explicit ideological labelling. The Interpretive Resonance Model remains a conceptual proposition rather than a tested causal model. Implications: Newsrooms and public communicators should consider audiences' moral evaluations alongside procedural explanations. The single-case design does not establish causal media effects.]]>
