1 sourcesFirst reported yesterday at 22:00, updated 17 h ago
বিদেশি অর্থছাড় কমল ৪২ শতাংশ
foreign portfolio investment falls by 42 percent
Photo: Ajker Patrika
Article analysis
Band BLocalised faults
Ajker PatrikaNeutral
Reports ERD aid-disbursement and repayment data descriptively under a factual headline, with only a mild contrastive framing of the repayment burden.
One of the one 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 1 of 1
বিদেশি অর্থছাড় কমল ৪২ শতাংশ
Ajker Patrika
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.
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G1
Reporter's own voiceOne isolated evaluative word in the reporter's voice. Evidence 11
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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 quotesQuotes are informational.0
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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
অথচ একই সময়ে
The contrastive 'অথচ' frames the repayment figure as a damning contrast, a mild evaluative tilt on data from the ERD report.
2Word choiceHeadline voice· not scored
বিদেশি অর্থছাড় কমল ৪২ শতাংশ
The headline states a figure computed from the ERD report without naming the source, but the claim is plainly factual.
Show the calculation
S = G2 + … + G7 = 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 0 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
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Channel 24
Bangladesh
Probably a different story
Neutral
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Samakal
Bangladesh
Probably a different story
Neutral
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Ajker Patrika
Bangladesh
Analysed above
Neutral
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Bangladesh Journal
Bangladesh
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.