10 sourcesFirst reported Sun 25 Oct at 02:53, updated 1 d ago
পাকিস্তান ও আফগানিস্তানে ৫.২ মাত্রার ভূমিকম্প
magnitude 5.2 earthquake strikes Pakistan and Afghanistan
Photo: The Times of India
Article analysis
Band AStraight reporting
The Times of IndiaNeutral
Plainly reports an earthquake with magnitudes attributed to USGS and GFZ, using descriptive headline and narration with no evaluative content.
Ten of the ten 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, 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 1 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 quotesQuotes are informational.0
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G6
Unattributed claimsEvery disputable claim is attributed.0
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G7
Missing contextNecessary background is present.0
Evidence
Show the calculation
S = G2 + … + G7 = 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 0 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 1
Every headline, in order
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The Times of India
South Asia
Analysed above
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
Probably a different story
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.