4 sourcesFirst reported Sun 25 Oct at 10:00, updated 1 d ago
জামায়াত নেতাকর্মীদের বাধা, মেয়ে ও দুই বোনের খোঁড়া কবরে দাফন হল মুক্তিযোদ্ধার
freedom fighter buried in dug grave after jamaat activists obstruct burial of daughter and sisters
Photo: Dhaka Times
Article analysis
Band BLocalised faults
Dhaka TimesNeutral
Headline and narration state as fact that Jamaat activists obstructed the burial, while the body carries Jamaat's denial and the only eyewitness quote blames unnamed people.
Three of the four 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, two framings
The earliest headline of each kind. Marked words are judgements in the headline itself: stated as fact or in quotation marks.
Neutral 3 of 4
জামায়াত নেতাকর্মীদের বাধা, মেয়ে ও দুই বোনের খোঁড়া কবরে দাফন হল মুক্তিযোদ্ধার
Dhaka Times
In quotation marks 1 of 4
Daughter, sisters dig freedom fighter’s grave after ‘Jamaat blocks’ burial
Dhaka Stream
How the 4 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 voiceOne isolated evaluative word in the reporter's voice. Evidence 31
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G2
HeadlineAsserts a contested claim in the paper's voice. Evidence 12
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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
- G6 2
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G7
Missing contextMinor context is missing. Evidence 21
Evidence
1Headline-body attribution mismatchHeadline voice
জামায়াত নেতাকর্মীদের বাধা
Headline asserts as fact that Jamaat activists obstructed the burial, which the Jamaat official denies in the body.
2Unsubstantiated claimReporter voice
জামায়াত নেতাকর্মী ও স্থানীয়দের তোপের মুখে
Narration attributes the obstruction to Jamaat activists as fact without naming a source; the sister's quote mentions only 'লোকজনে'.
3Word choiceReporter voice
তোপের মুখে
Charged phrase for opposition in reporter voice.
4Unsubstantiated claimReporter voice
জামায়াত নেতাকর্মী ও স্থানীয়দের বাধা-উত্তেজনাকর পরিস্থিতির কারণে
Repeats the contested Jamaat role as background fact.
5Emotional sensationalismReporter voice· not scored
মরদেহ দাফনের সময় পাশে ছিলেন না কোনো পুরুষ স্বজন
Emotive emphasis in the lead, though factual and echoed by the source.
Show the calculation
S = G2 + … + G7 = 2 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 2 + 1 = 5 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 4
Every headline, in order
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Dhaka Times
Bangladesh
Analysed above
Neutral
জামায়াত নেতাকর্মীদের বাধা, মেয়ে ও দুই বোনের খোঁড়া কবরে দাফন হল মুক্তিযোদ্ধার
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Dhaka Stream
Bangladesh
In quotes
Daughter, sisters dig freedom fighter’s grave after ‘Jamaat blocks’ burial
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.