7 sourcesFirst reported yesterday at 03:23, updated 2 h ago
North Korean howitzer guns spotted close to border with South Korea
Photo: bdnews24.com
Article analysis
Band AStraight reporting
The IndependentNeutral
Reports the howitzer sighting descriptively, attributing it to Reuters and Yonhap, presents both Koreas' positions, and confines interpretation of intent to a quoted analyst.
Seven of the seven outlets that covered this event headlined it neutrally.
Nothing in the headline, sourcing or narration pushes the reader.
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 7 of 7
Tensions high as North Korea howitzer spotted near South Korean border
The Japan Times
How the 2 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 voiceNarration is descriptive throughout.0
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G2
HeadlineReports the event or the speech act; contested claims are attributed.0
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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 quotesSome evaluative words in quotes, in proportion to the event. Evidence 11
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G6
Unattributed claimsEvery disputable claim is attributed.0
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G7
Missing contextNecessary background is present.0
Evidence
1ProjectionAttributed quote voice
North Korea is signalling through action, not words, that it intends to enforce its border policy through force
An analyst's attribution of intent, clearly quoted and not adopted by the paper.
2Word choiceParaphrased source voice· not scored
so-called border line marking work
The dismissive 'so-called' comes from the Unification Ministry's paraphrased statement.
3Word choiceReporter voice· not scored
heavily armed border
A standard factual descriptor of the DMZ rather than evaluation.
Show the calculation
S = G2 + … + G7 = 0 + 0 + 0 + 1 + 0 + 0 = 1 G1 = 0, below 2: not band D G1 = 0 and S ≤ 1: band A Band A: S = 0 gives 1, S = 1 gives 2. Score 2
Every headline, in order
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The Japan Times
Asia Pacific
First to report
Neutral
Tensions high as North Korea howitzer spotted near South Korean border
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bdnews24.com
Bangladesh
Neutral
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The Independent
Europe
Analysed above
Neutral
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The Sydney Morning Herald
Asia Pacific
Probably a different story
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.