3 sourcesFirst reported Sun 25 Oct at 11:15, updated 15 h ago
কসবায় তিন কোটি টাকার সেতুর সংযোগ সড়ক না থাকায় দুর্ভোগে এলাকাবাসী
locals suffer as three crore taka bridge lacks connecting road in Kasba
Photo: Boishakhi Television
Article analysis
Band DEditorialising in its own voice
Boishakhi TelevisionNeutral
Factual headline on a stalled bridge approach; narration adds evaluative imagery and appeals, and the contractors' side appears only second-hand through the engineer.
Two of the three outlets that covered this event headlined it neutrally.
The paper's own narration evaluates, which places it in the top band.
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 2 of 3
কসবায় তিন কোটি টাকার সেতুর সংযোগ সড়ক না থাকায় দুর্ভোগে এলাকাবাসী
Boishakhi Television
Stated as fact 1 of 3
নেই সংযোগ সড়ক, অচল ৩ কোটি টাকার সেতু
Shomoyer Alo
How the 8 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 2
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G2
HeadlineReports the event or the speech act; contested claims are attributed.0
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G3
Other side missingThe other side is present, but only as a token line. Evidence 41
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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 contextMinor context is missing. Evidence 41
Evidence
1Word choiceReporter voice
দাঁড়িয়ে আছে মাথা উঁচু করে
Ironic, evaluative imagery in narration framing the bridge as a useless monument.
2OpinionatedReporter voice
কতটা ঝুঁকিপূর্ণ তা দেখলেই বোঝা যায়
Reporter's own evaluative judgment of danger without attribution.
3MagnitudeReporter voice
কোটি কোটি টাকা ব্যয়ে
Inflates the documented ~3 crore figure into an unquantified 'crores and crores'.
4CoverageReporter voice
মাটি কাটার ভেকু মেশিন না পাওয়ায় কারন দেখাচ্ছে ঠিকাদারি প্রতিষ্ঠান
The contractors named are not quoted directly; their explanation appears only second-hand via the engineer.
5Empty symbolReporter voice
ভুক্তভোগী এলাকাবাসী ও সচেতন মহলের
Closing appeal to an unnamed 'conscious circle' in reporter voice.
Show the calculation
S = G2 + … + G7 = 0 + 1 + 0 + 0 + 1 + 1 = 3 G1 = 2, at least 2: band D Band D: set by G1 and S. Score 8
Every headline, in order
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Boishakhi Television
Bangladesh
Analysed above
Neutral
কসবায় তিন কোটি টাকার সেতুর সংযোগ সড়ক না থাকায় দুর্ভোগে এলাকাবাসী
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Shomoyer Alo
Bangladesh
Stated as fact
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The Daily Inqilab
Bangladesh
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.