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16 sourcesFirst reported yesterday at 05:52, updated 11 h ago

পদ্মা নদী থেকে অবৈধ বালু উত্তোলন বন্ধ ও সেতুর অবকাঠামোর নিরাপত্তা নিশ্চিত চেয়ে হাইকোর্টে রিট

petition filed in high court seeking halt to illegal sand extraction from padma river

Photo: Banglanews24.com

Article analysis

4out of 10

Band BLocalised faults

Reports a writ petition's filing and contents with attribution to the petitioner, without seeking comment from the government authorities it implicates.

Sixteen of the sixteen 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 16 of 16

পদ্মা নদী থেকে অবৈধ বালু উত্তোলন বন্ধে হাইকোর্টে রিট

Dhaka Post

How the 4 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
    HeadlineReports the event or the speech act; contested claims are attributed.
    0
  3. G3
    Other side missingThe other side is absent, with no sign a response was sought. Evidence 2
    3
  4. G4
    Weight of the unanswered allegationPolicy criticism or disagreement. Evidence 2
    1
  5. G5
    Loaded quotesQuotes are informational.
    0
  6. G6
    Unattributed claimsEvery disputable claim is attributed.
    0
  7. G7
    Missing contextNecessary background is present.
    0

Evidence

1Headline-body attribution mismatchHeadline voice· not scored

অবৈধ বালু উত্তোলন বন্ধ ও পদ্মা সেতু রক্ষায় রিট

Headline restates the writ's stated purpose; 'অবৈধ' is the petitioner's characterisation but the headline describes the writ's aim, so it stays effectively attributed.

2CoverageReporter voice

রিটে সংশ্লিষ্ট সরকারি কর্তৃপক্ষের আইনগত দায়িত্ব যথাযথভাবে পালনের জন্য প্রয়োজনীয় নির্দেশনা চাওয়া হয়েছে।

Government authorities implicated as failing duties are not quoted and no response sought.

Show the calculation
S = G2 + … + G7 = 0 + 3 + 1 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 4
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 4

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