4 sourcesFirst reported yesterday at 21:41, updated 5 h ago
Trump administration attempting to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey again
Photo: Toronto Star
Article analysis
Band BLocalised faults
Toronto StarNeutral
Reports the renewed prosecution attempt factually, attributing the leak allegation to the Justice Department, quoting both Comey and the department, with only a mildly charged 'foe' in narration.
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
Trump administration attempting to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey again
Associated Press
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 21
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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 11
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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 choiceAttributed quote voice
such an appalling abuse of the Department of Justice
Comey's own evaluative characterization, quoted and attributed.
2Word choiceReporter voice
a longtime critic and foe of President Donald Trump
'Foe' is a mildly charged characterization in narration, though widely documented.
3Word choiceReporter voice· not scored
an overture that so unnerved the FBI director
Narration adopts Comey's account of his emotional reaction, somewhat favoring his framing.
Show the calculation
S = G2 + … + G7 = 0 + 0 + 0 + 1 + 0 + 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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Associated Press
US & Canada
First to report
Neutral
Trump administration attempting to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey again
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Toronto Star
US & Canada
Analysed above
Neutral
Trump administration attempting to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey again
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.