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4 sourcesFirst reported Sun 25 Oct at 16:45, updated 13 h ago

নকল দেখিয়ে আসল স্বর্ণের চেইন, আংটি হাতিয়ে নিল প্রতারক চক্র

fraud gang swaps fake gold for real gold chain and ring

Photo: Dainik Purbokone

Article analysis

3out of 10

Band BLocalised faults

Routine crime report that largely attributes the account to the victim's complaint and police, though the headline and one sentence state the alleged fraud as fact.

Four 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, one framing

The earliest headline of each kind. Marked words are judgements in the headline itself: stated as fact or in quotation marks.

Neutral 4 of 4

নকল দেখিয়ে আসল স্বর্ণের চেইন, আংটি হাতিয়ে নিল প্রতারক চক্র

Desh Rupantor

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.

  1. G1
    Reporter's own voiceNarration is descriptive throughout.
    0
  2. G2
    HeadlineCompresses or intensifies, but the claim stays attributed. Evidence 1
    1
  3. G3
    Other side missingEvery party involved responds substantively.
    0
  4. G4
    Weight of the unanswered allegationNo allegation against an identifiable party.
    0
  5. G5
    Loaded quotesQuotes are informational.
    0
  6. G6
    Unattributed claimsOne or two disputable claims are unattributed. Evidence 2
    1
  7. G7
    Missing contextNecessary background is present.
    0

Evidence

1Headline-body attribution mismatchHeadline voice

নারীর চেইন-আংটি হাতিয়ে নিল প্রতারক চক্র

Headline states the theft as fact while the body frames it as an allegation from the complaint; the accused are unidentified, so this is a minor compression.

2Unsubstantiated claimReporter voice

প্রতারক চক্রের সদস্যরা ওই নারীর দেড় ভরি ওজনের স্বর্ণের চেইন ও আংটি নিয়ে পালিয়ে যায়।

The complaint's account is narrated as fact in the second sentence without attribution, though it is attributed elsewhere.

Show the calculation
S = G2 + … + G7 = 1 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 1 + 0 = 2
G1 = 0, 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

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.

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