10 sourcesFirst reported Sun 25 Oct at 02:53, updated 23 h ago
পাকিস্তান ও আফগানিস্তানে ৫.২ মাত্রার ভূমিকম্প
magnitude 5.2 earthquake strikes Pakistan and Afghanistan
Photo: The Times of India
Article analysis
Band COne-sided, no editorial voice
Ariana NewsNeutral
Headline asserts in the paper's own voice that Pakistan is threatening strikes, while the page offers no body text, sourcing or Pakistani response to support it.
Ten of the ten outlets that covered this event headlined it neutrally.
The reporter's own narration carries no evaluation, which keeps it out of the top band (8 to 10).
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
6.5-magnitude earthquake strikes Bonin Islands region of Japan
The Times of India
How the 6 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
HeadlineAsserts a contested claim in the paper's voice. Evidence 12
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G3
Other side missingThe other side is absent, with no sign a response was sought. Evidence 33
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G4
Weight of the unanswered allegationAllegation of misconduct, bad faith or incompetence. Evidence 32
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G5
Loaded quotesQuotes are informational.0
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G6
Unattributed claimsOne or two disputable claims are unattributed. Evidence 21
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G7
Missing contextMissing context materially changes the reading. Evidence 22
Evidence
1Headline-body attribution mismatchHeadline voice
Pakistan threatening strikes on Afghanistan
Headline asserts in the paper's voice that Pakistan is threatening strikes, with no body text attributing or substantiating the claim.
2Unsubstantiated claimReporter voice
Saar: Pakistan threatening strikes on Afghanistan
The page contains no article body, so the claim of threatened strikes has no source or evidence.
3CoverageReporter voice
Saar: Pakistan threatening strikes on Afghanistan
Pakistan, the implicated party, is not quoted, and no response is mentioned.
Show the calculation
S = G2 + … + G7 = 2 + 3 + 2 + 0 + 1 + 2 = 10 G1 = 0, below 2: not band D G3 ≥ 2, and G2, G5 or G6 ≥ 2: band C Band C: S ≤ 12 gives 6, 13 or more gives 7. Score 6
Every headline, in order
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The Times of India
South Asia
First to report
Neutral
6.5-magnitude earthquake strikes Bonin Islands region of Japan
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Hindustan Times
South Asia
Probably a different story
Neutral
Magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes China's Qinghai region
Headline changed; now
Magnitude 5.9 earthquake strikes China's Tibet region
26 Oct, 06:50 -
The Hindu
South Asia
Probably a different story
Neutral
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Amar Sangbad
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Channel 24
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Barta24.com
Bangladesh
Neutral
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The Daily Ittefaq
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Dainik Sangbad
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Channel i
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Boishakhi Television
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Ariana News
South Asia
Analysed above
Neutral
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.