10 sourcesFirst reported Wed 21 Oct at 03:09, updated 19 h ago
তেলের দাম কমেছে ব্যারেলপ্রতি ১১৫ ডলার
oil price falls to 115 dollars per barrel
Photo: Dhaka Times
Article analysis
Band BLocalised faults
Al Jazeera ArabicNeutral
Reports oil price moves factually in a descriptive headline and narration, attributing security claims to official sources and including Iranian officials' statements; the only charged language sits in a quoted Saudi statement.
Ten of the ten outlets that covered this event headlined it neutrally.
The faults are local; the reporter's narration stays descriptive.
1 Straight reporting10 Campaigning
The same event, one framing
The earliest headline of each kind. Marked words are judgements in the headline itself: stated as fact or in quotation marks.
Neutral 10 of 10
মধ্যপ্রাচ্যে উত্তেজনা, বিশ্ববাজারে তেলের দাম ১১০ ডলার - bd-pratidin.com
Bangladesh Pratidin
How the 3 was worked out
The model answers seven fixed questions from 0 to 3 and cites evidence for each. The score is calculated from the answers in code, so any disagreement points to one question.
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G1
Reporter's own voiceNarration is descriptive throughout.0
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G2
HeadlineReports the event or the speech act; contested claims are attributed.0
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G3
Other side missingEvery party involved responds substantively.0
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G4
Weight of the unanswered allegationNo allegation against an identifiable party.0
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G5
Loaded quotesSome evaluative words in quotes, in proportion to the event. Evidence 11
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G6
Unattributed claimsEvery disputable claim is attributed.0
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G7
Missing contextMinor context is missing. Evidence 31
Evidence
1Word choiceAttributed quote voice
الاعتداء الغاشم
Charged phrase 'brutal aggression' appears inside a quoted Saudi aviation authority statement, not the paper's narration.
2Unsubstantiated claimParaphrased source voice· not scored
استهداف إيران ناقلات نفط
Iranian responsibility for tanker attacks is relayed via analysts' warning without further corroboration or Iranian response on that point.
3NormalwashingReporter voice
عقب هجمات أسفرت عن سقوط قتلى ومصابين
Attacks are described without identifying the perpetrator or attribution of responsibility, a minor context gap.
Show the calculation
S = G2 + … + G7 = 0 + 0 + 0 + 1 + 0 + 1 = 2 G1 = 0, below 2: not band D Not band C or A: band B Band B: S ≤ 3 gives 3, 4 to 6 gives 4, 7 or more gives 5. Score 3
Every headline, in order
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Bangladesh Pratidin
Bangladesh
First to report
Neutral
মধ্যপ্রাচ্যে উত্তেজনা, বিশ্ববাজারে তেলের দাম ১১০ ডলার - bd-pratidin.com
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Dhaka Times
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Al Jazeera Arabic
Middle East
Analysed above
Neutral
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Daily Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Neutral
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The Rio Times
Latin America
Neutral
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Amar Desh
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Bangladesh Journal
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Desh TV
Bangladesh
Probably a different story
Neutral
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NTV
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Protidiner Sangbad
Bangladesh
Neutral
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The Daily Ittefaq
Bangladesh
Neutral
তেলের দাম কমেছে ব্যারেলপ্রতি ১১৫ ডলার
Headline changed; now
তেলের দাম কমেছে, ব্যারেলপ্রতি ১১৫ ডলার
26 Oct, 16:00
About this method
Method. Bias types follow the Table of Media Bias Elements and the Media Bias Taxonomy (both CC BY 4.0). The impartiality rules follow the BBC Editorial Guidelines and the Ofcom Broadcasting Code. This analysis was made by claude-opus-5-5 on rubric 1.0.0. The score is calculated from the seven answers, never generated.
What this is not. No outlet gets a standing bias rating, and there is no left/right axis, because that axis does not describe Bangladeshi politics. Each analysis covers one article about one event. Members' analytics count how each outlet's headlines were labelled over a chosen period, with the number of headlines behind every share, and also show the average score of an outlet's scored articles: that average describes those articles (mostly each story's lead), not the outlet, and outlets are never ranked by it or by any share.
Known limits. Headlines are grouped into stories automatically, so an unrelated headline sometimes slips in; it is shown faded rather than hidden. Where outlets carry the same wire copy, the comparison has little to show. Human annotators agree on bias in Bangla news only moderately (κ = 0.574 at best), which limits what any automated score can claim.