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8 sourcesFirst reported Sun 25 Oct at 18:12, updated 21 h ago

ফেসবুক লাইভে ‘বিএনপি সরকারকে ভোট দিয়া আজকে ভুক্তভোগী’ বলা নারীকে গ্রেপ্তার দেখাল পুলিশ

police arrest woman who said on Facebook live she is a victim after voting BNP

Article analysis

3out of 10

Band BLocalised faults

Largely factual report whose headline links the jailing to political regret; police explanations are quoted, but the woman's side and the BNP supporters who surrounded her are not heard.

Four of the eight 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 4 of 8

ফেসবুক লাইভে সমালোচনার জেরে নারী উদ্যোক্তা আটক

Kalbela

In quotation marks 4 of 8

‘ভোট দিয়ে ভুক্তভোগী হলাম’, ফেসবুক লাইভের পর আটক নারী উদ্যোক্তা

Bangla Tribune

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 missingThe other side is present, but only as a token line. Evidence 2
    1
  4. G4
    Weight of the unanswered allegationNo allegation against an identifiable party.
    0
  5. G5
    Loaded quotesQuotes are informational.
    0
  6. G6
    Unattributed claimsEvery disputable claim is attributed.
    0
  7. G7
    Missing contextMinor context is missing. Evidence 3
    1

Evidence

1Headline-body attribution mismatchHeadline voice

Woman sent to jail after expressing regret over voting for BNP

Headline juxtaposes jailing with political regret, implying causation, though the body supports the sequence and mentions the 151 preventive case; mild compression.

2CoverageReporter voice

local BNP supporters and businessmen surrounded Shathi

BNP supporters who surrounded her are not quoted or asked for response, nor is Shathi or her lawyer.

3Cherry pickingReporter voice

They later filed a case against her under Section 151

No independent legal view on whether preventive detention fits the facts; only police explanation given.

Show the calculation
S = G2 + … + G7 = 1 + 1 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 1 = 3
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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