5 sourcesFirst reported Sun 25 Oct at 05:11, updated 1 d ago
Sri Lanka seeks faster green energy shift after oil shocks
Article analysis
Band BLocalised faults
Ada DeranaNeutral
Descriptive headline and largely attributed interview report with the energy minister, with a couple of mild unattributed evaluative lines in narration.
Five of the five 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 5 of 5
Sri Lanka seeks faster green energy shift after oil shocks
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS)
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.
- G1 1
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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 claimsOne or two disputable claims are unattributed. Evidence 31
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G7
Missing contextNecessary background is present.0
Evidence
1Emotional sensationalismReporter voice
The state and the public have paid a heavy price.
Evaluative summary in reporter voice without specific referent beyond prior facts.
2Word choiceReporter voice· not scored
the US and Israel launched their war on Iran
Frames the conflict's origin in the paper's voice without attribution, though likely plainly factual context.
3OpinionatedReporter voice
But that will not be enough.
Unattributed evaluative prediction in reporter narration.
4Source selectionReporter voice· not scored
residents blame turbines operating since 2020
Mannar residents' concerns are summarized but not quoted; only the minister speaks.
Show the calculation
S = G2 + … + G7 = 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 1 + 0 = 1 G1 = 1, 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 Sangbad Sangstha (BSS)
Bangladesh
First to report
Neutral
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ARY News
South Asia
Neutral
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The Daily Star
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Ada Derana
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.