5 sourcesFirst reported yesterday at 11:59, updated 4 h ago
জুনাইদ আহমেদ পলক জুলাইয়ে ‘কোটা’ ছাত্র আন্দোলনের পক্ষে ছিল: আদালতে আইনজীবী
lawyer tells court Junaid Ahmed Palak supported quota student movement in July
Photo: Daily Manobkantha
Article analysis
Band BLocalised faults
Daily ManobkanthaNeutral
Relays a defence lawyer's claims with clear attribution in headline and body, notes that the prosecution's response was unavailable, and gives little detail about the murder case itself.
Four of the five 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 4 of 5
জুনাইদ আহমেদ পলক জুলাইয়ে ‘কোটা’ ছাত্র আন্দোলনের পক্ষে ছিল: আদালতে আইনজীবী
The Daily Ittefaq
In quotation marks 1 of 5
‘জুলাইয়ে ছাত্র আন্দোলনের পক্ষে ছিলেন পলক’
RTV
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 32
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G4
Weight of the unanswered allegationAllegation of misconduct, bad faith or incompetence. Evidence 32
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G5
Loaded quotesQuotes are informational.0
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G6
Unattributed claimsOne or two disputable claims are unattributed. Evidence 21
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G7
Missing contextMinor context is missing. Evidence 41
Evidence
1Word choiceReporter voice· not scored
দাবি করেছেন
'দাবি' is a mildly distancing verb, but it is standard and appropriate for a defence lawyer's contested assertion.
2Unsubstantiated claimReporter voice
বলে মনে করছেন সংশ্লিষ্ট আইন বিশেষজ্ঞরা
Unnamed 'legal experts' are cited without identification, though the claim attributed to them is anodyne.
3Cherry pickingReporter voice
রাষ্ট্রপক্ষ কিংবা আদালত থেকে তাৎক্ষণিক কোনো প্রতিক্রিয়া পাওয়া যায়নি
The prosecution's side is absent, but the absence is signposted.
4NormalwashingReporter voice
একটি হত্যা মামলার শুনানি
Minimal detail on the case's allegations against Palak or the victim is provided as context.
Show the calculation
S = G2 + … + G7 = 0 + 2 + 2 + 0 + 1 + 1 = 6 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 Daily Ittefaq
Bangladesh
First to report
Neutral
জুনাইদ আহমেদ পলক জুলাইয়ে ‘কোটা’ ছাত্র আন্দোলনের পক্ষে ছিল: আদালতে আইনজীবী
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Kalbela
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Daily Manobkantha
Bangladesh
Analysed above
Neutral
‘জুলাইয়ে ছাত্র আন্দোলনের পক্ষেই ছিলেন পলক’, আদালতে আইনজীবীর দাবি
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RTV
Bangladesh
In quotes
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Dainik Amader Shomoy
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.