5 sourcesFirst reported yesterday at 11:12, updated 19 h ago
কক্সবাজারে গুঁড়িয়ে দেওয়া হলো ‘ছয় কোটি’ টাকার রিসোর্ট
six crore taka resort demolished in cox's bazar
Photo: Prothom Alo
Article analysis
Band BLocalised faults
Prothom AloIn quotes
Reports the demolition descriptively, attributes the cost to the owner and quotes his rebuttal, though one paragraph narrates official illegality claims as fact before attributing them.
Three of the five outlets that covered this event headlined it neutrally, so this framing was a choice the story did not require.
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 3 of 5
কক্সবাজারে গুঁড়িয়ে দেয়া হলো ৬ কোটি টাকার রিসোর্ট
Channel 24
In quotation marks 2 of 5
কক্সবাজারে গুঁড়িয়ে দেওয়া হলো ‘ছয় কোটি’ টাকার রিসোর্ট
Prothom Alo
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 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 31
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G6
Unattributed claimsOne or two disputable claims are unattributed. Evidence 21
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G7
Missing contextNecessary background is present.0
Evidence
1Word choiceReporter voice· not scored
অবৈধভাবে নির্মিত চারতলা রিসোর্ট ভবনটি
Illegality is within KUK officials' attributed statement, but the reporter elsewhere adopts 'অবৈধ' framing as settled though the owner disputes it.
2Unsubstantiated claimReporter voice
৮০ কিলোমিটারে মেরিন ড্রাইভের দুই পাশে অনেক অবৈধ স্থাপনা গড়ে উঠেছে।
Paragraph stated in narration without attribution (later repeated as the DC's words), presenting the official position as background fact.
3Word choiceAttributed quote voice
ব্যাঙের ছাতার মতো
Mildly derisive metaphor from the resort owners' association secretary, attributed.
Show the calculation
S = G2 + … + G7 = 0 + 0 + 0 + 1 + 1 + 0 = 2 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 3
Every headline, in order
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Prothom Alo
Bangladesh
Analysed above
In quotes
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Bangladesh Journal
Bangladesh
In quotes
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Channel 24
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Ekattor TV
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Kaler Kantho
Bangladesh
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.