3 sourcesFirst reported yesterday at 20:05, updated 9 h ago
Iran holds 'very good' talks with Mecca pact nations on region's security
Article analysis
Band BLocalised faults
Channel NewsAsia (CNA)Neutral
Reports the Tehran talks with attribution throughout and quotes multiple parties; the headline quotes Iran's characterisation, and the narration has only minor descriptive adjectives.
Three 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, one framing
The earliest headline of each kind. Marked words are judgements in the headline itself: stated as fact or in quotation marks.
Neutral 3 of 3
Iran security chief says 'very good discussions' held with Mecca pact countries - Region - World
Ahram Online
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 claimsOne or two disputable claims are unattributed. Evidence 31
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G7
Missing contextNecessary background is present.0
Evidence
1Word choiceReporter voice
heavyweight Saudi Defence Minister
Mildly evaluative descriptor in narration, though it reflects common wire style.
2Word choiceReporter voice· not scored
Pakistan's powerful army chief
Evaluative adjective in reporter voice, a conventional wire descriptor.
3Unsubstantiated claimReporter voice
Fresh explosions rattled Riyadh overnight, which has suffered weeks of attacks from the Iran-backed Houthis
The scope of the attacks is narrated without a source, though it is widely reported background.
Show the calculation
S = G2 + … + G7 = 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 1 + 0 = 1 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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Ahram Online
Middle East
First to report
Neutral
Iran security chief says 'very good discussions' held with Mecca pact countries - Region - World
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NDTV
South Asia
Neutral
Iran Says "Very Good Discussions" Held With Mecca Pact Countries
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Channel NewsAsia (CNA)
Asia Pacific
Analysed above
Neutral
Iran holds 'very good' talks with Mecca pact nations on region's security
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.