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8 sourcesFirst reported Sat 24 Oct at 00:00, updated 2 d ago

ভারতে পালানোর সময় নিষিদ্ধ ছাত্রলীগ নেতা আটক

banned Chhatra League leader arrested while fleeing to India

Photo: Daily Naya Diganta

Article analysis

2out of 10

Band AStraight reporting

Reports an arrest at the border factually, attributing the pending cases to police, with no response from the arrested person.

Seven of the eight outlets that covered this event headlined it neutrally.

Nothing in the headline, sourcing or narration pushes the reader.

1 Straight reporting10 Campaigning

The same event, two framings

The earliest headline of each kind. Marked words are judgements in the headline itself: stated as fact or in quotation marks.

Neutral 7 of 8

ভারতে পালানোর সময় নিষিদ্ধ ছাত্রলীগের নেতা আটক

Channel 24

Stated as fact 1 of 8

ভারতে যাওয়ার সময় নিষিদ্ধ ছাত্রলীগ নেতা আটক

Dhaka Post

How the 2 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.

  1. G1
    Reporter's own voiceNarration is descriptive throughout.
    0
  2. G2
    HeadlineReports the event or the speech act; contested claims are attributed.
    0
  3. G3
    Other side missingThe other side is present, but only as a token line. Evidence 1
    1
  4. G4
    Weight of the unanswered allegationNo allegation against an identifiable party.
    0
  5. G5
    Loaded quotesQuotes are informational.
    0
  6. G6
    Unattributed claimsEvery disputable claim is attributed.
    0
  7. G7
    Missing contextNecessary background is present.
    0

Evidence

1CoverageReporter voice

সন্ত্রাস দমন আইনে একাধিক মামলা রয়েছে

The arrested person's side or lawyer is not quoted, though the cases are attributed to police and not an adjudicated allegation.

2Word choiceHeadline voice· not scored

ছাত্রলীগ নেতা

The headline calls him a 'leader' while the body describes him as a district unit member, a mild intensification.

Show the calculation
S = G2 + … + G7 = 0 + 1 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 1
G1 = 0, below 2: not band D
G1 = 0 and S ≤ 1: band A
Band A: S = 0 gives 1, S = 1 gives 2. Score 2

Every headline, in order

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.

The full method