10 sourcesFirst reported yesterday at 06:50, updated 2 h ago

‘অর্ণব’ রূপ নিয়েছে অতিপ্রবল ঘূর্ণিঝড়ে, ৩ নম্বর সতর্কতা

arnab becomes very severe cyclone, signal number three issued

Photo: Dainik Bangla

Article analysis

3out of 10

Band BLocalised faults

Dainik Bangla06:50Neutral

Largely descriptive bulletin compilation with a factual weather headline; narration adds one unattributed note of praise for the NBR appointee, and a minister's syndicate accusation stays in quotes.

Ten of the ten outlets that covered this event headlined it neutrally.

The faults are local; the reporter's narration stays descriptive.

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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 10 of 10

সাগরের নিম্নচাপ রূপ নিতে পারে ঘূর্ণিঝড় ‘অর্নব’-এ, ১ নম্বর সতর্ক সংকেত

Dainik Bangla06:50

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.

G1
Reporter's own voiceOne isolated evaluative word in the reporter's voice. Evidence 2
1
G2
HeadlineReports the event or the speech act; contested claims are attributed.
0
G3
Other side missingEvery party involved responds substantively.
0
G4
Weight of the unanswered allegationNo allegation against an identifiable party.
0
G5
Loaded quotesSome evaluative words in quotes, in proportion to the event. Evidence 1
1
G6
Unattributed claimsOne or two disputable claims are unattributed. Evidence 2
1
G7
Missing contextNecessary background is present.
0

Evidence

1Word choiceAttributed quote voice

একটি অসাধু চক্র সারের কৃত্রিম সংকট দেখানোর অপচেষ্টা করেছে

Minister's quoted accusation against an unnamed syndicate; source rhetoric, not adopted by the paper.

2OpinionatedReporter voice

দীর্ঘ কর্মজীবনে তিনি কর প্রশাসন ও ব্যবস্থাপনা দক্ষতার সাথে পরিচালনা করেছেন

Unattributed praise of the appointee's competence in the paper's own narration.

3Selection (unscored)Reporter voice· not scored

প্রবাসীকল্যাণ ও বৈদেশিক কর্মসংস্থানমন্ত্রী আরিফুল হক চৌধুরী জানিয়েছেন

Compilation of unrelated government briefs under a weather headline; a story-choice property.

Show the calculation

S = G2 + … + G7 = 0 + 0 + 0 + 1 + 1 + 0 = 2
G1 = 1, 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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