4 sourcesFirst reported yesterday at 19:58, updated 10 h ago
Man charged with mailing threatening letters with white substance to members of Congress
Photo: NBC News
Article analysis
Band BLocalised faults
NBC NewsNeutral
Reports a federal charge factually in headline and narration, attributing all details to the FBI and charging documents, but includes no response from the accused or his counsel.
Four of the four 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 4 of 4
Man charged with mailing threatening letters with white substance to members of Congress
NBC News
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, with no sign a response was sought. Evidence 13
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G4
Weight of the unanswered allegationAllegation of crime, violence or grave moral fault. Evidence 13
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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
1CoverageReporter voice
He will make an initial appearance in court Monday afternoon.
No defense attorney or response from the accused is included, nor is it stated that comment was sought.
2Source selectionReporter voice· not scored
according to the FBI
All factual claims come from the FBI, a single law-enforcement source, though they are attributed.
Show the calculation
S = G2 + … + G7 = 0 + 3 + 3 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 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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NBC News
US & Canada
Analysed above
Neutral
Man charged with mailing threatening letters with white substance to members of Congress
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Toronto Star
US & Canada
Neutral
Illinois man charged with mailing white powder to members of Congress
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.