3 sourcesFirst reported yesterday at 08:25, updated 11 h ago
No action on deleted voters using Form 6: Supreme Court
Photo: The Times of India
Article analysis
Band BLocalised faults
The Times of IndiaNeutral
Headline accurately reports the court's assurance; the narration is descriptive and attributes the petitioner's criticisms, though the Election Commission's view is absent pending its ordered response.
Two of the three 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 2 of 3
Supreme Court assures no deleted voters will be prosecuted for submitting Form 6
The Hindu
In quotation marks 1 of 3
‘Nobody will be prosecuted’: Supreme Court over deleted voters filing Form 6
The Indian Express
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.
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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 missingThe other side is absent, but the article says a response was sought. Evidence 22
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G4
Weight of the unanswered allegationPolicy criticism or disagreement. Evidence 21
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G5
Loaded quotesSome evaluative words in quotes, in proportion to the event. Evidence 31
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G6
Unattributed claimsEvery disputable claim is attributed.0
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G7
Missing contextNecessary background is present.0
Evidence
1Word choiceReporter voice· not scored
large-scale exclusion
Unquantified scale phrasing, though it describes the PIL's subject and is backed by figures cited later.
2Cherry pickingReporter voice
The bench asked the EC to file its response to the PIL by Nov 5
The Election Commission's position on the deletions is not presented, but the article signposts that a response has been sought.
3Word choiceParaphrased source voice
removed on flimsy and non-existent grounds
Evaluative characterisation, attributed to the petitioner's counsel.
Show the calculation
S = G2 + … + G7 = 0 + 2 + 1 + 1 + 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
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The Hindu
South Asia
First to report
Neutral
Supreme Court assures no deleted voters will be prosecuted for submitting Form 6
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The Times of India
South Asia
Analysed above
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.