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3 sourcesFirst reported Sun 25 Oct at 18:00, updated 13 h ago

কুমিল্লায় ধর্ষণের শিকার তরুণীর সন্তান প্রসব, ৫০ হাজার টাকায় বিক্রি

rape victim in Cumilla gives birth and baby sold for fifty thousand taka

Article analysis

6out of 10

Band COne-sided, no editorial voice

Headline asserts the baby's sale as fact; narration slips family allegations into unattributed statements, and the named accused and uncle are never quoted, though police confirm a detention.

Two of the three outlets that covered this event headlined it neutrally.

The reporter's own narration carries no evaluation, which keeps it out of the top band (8 to 10).

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

ধর্ষণের শিকার তরুণীর সন্তান প্রসব, নবজাতককে ৫০ হাজার টাকায় বিক্রির অভিযোগ

RTV

In quotation marks 1 of 3

‘ধর্ষণে অন্তঃসত্ত্বা’ তরুণীর সন্তান প্রসব৫০ হাজার টাকায় নবজাতক বিক্রি সালিশে ৩ লাখ টাকা জরিমানা

Comillar Kagoj

How the 6 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
    HeadlineAsserts a contested claim in the paper's voice. Evidence 1
    2
  3. G3
    Other side missingThe other side is absent, with no sign a response was sought. Evidence 5
    3
  4. G4
    Weight of the unanswered allegationAllegation of crime, violence or grave moral fault. Evidence 5
    3
  5. G5
    Loaded quotesQuotes are informational.
    0
  6. G6
    Unattributed claimsSeveral disputable claims are unattributed. Evidence 2 3 4
    2
  7. G7
    Missing contextMinor context is missing. Evidence 5
    1

Evidence

1Headline-body attribution mismatchHeadline voice

৫০ হাজার টাকায় বিক্রি

Headline states the sale as fact while the body attributes it to the victim family's allegation.

2Unsubstantiated claimReporter voice

তবে সন্তান জন্মের পরপরই নবজাতককে ৫০ হাজার টাকার বিনিময়ে অন্যত্র বিক্রি করে দেয়া হয়েছে।

The sale is narrated as fact without attribution in this sentence.

3Unsubstantiated claimReporter voice

বহন করা হয়েছে বলে জানা গেছে

Agentless জানা গেছে with no named source.

4Unsubstantiated claimReporter voice

প্রথমদিকে অভিযুক্তের পরিবার বিষয়টি এড়িয়ে যাওয়ার চেষ্টা করে এবং উল্টো ভুক্তভোগীকে নিয়ে নানা অপবাদ দেয়।

Allegations against the accused family narrated as fact in reporter voice.

5CoverageReporter voice

অভিযুক্ত যুবক জাহিদুল ইসলাম ওরফে আবির

The accused man and his uncle are named but not quoted, and no response attempt is mentioned; only the mediator responds.

Show the calculation
S = G2 + … + G7 = 2 + 3 + 3 + 0 + 2 + 1 = 11
G1 = 0, below 2: not band D
G3 ≥ 2, and G2, G5 or G6 ≥ 2: band C
Band C: S ≤ 12 gives 6, 13 or more gives 7. Score 6

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.

The full method