Counting began at 8 am on Tuesday at 138 centres for 92 urban local bodies in Andhra Pradesh, with Prakasam and Bapatla delayed to 11.30 am by Cyclone Murasu. Early trends reported by one outlet show the TDP-led alliance ahead in most corporations, while YSRCP alleged irregularities in Pulivendula and the high court declined to halt counting there.
Why it matters: The results are an early test for the Chandrababu Naidu-led state government and for the opposition YSRCP, and they affect civic governance for lakhs of voters across the state.
Based on 6 articles read in full. Scores describe each article's framing, not the outlet and not whether it is accurate.
Large outlets read: 2 of 15 (Hindustan Times, Republic). Most of India’s largest outlets, including NDTV, India Today, Times of India, Hindustan Times, The Hindu and Indian Express, block our reader in this prototype, so their coverage is missing here. The launch pipeline reads their public feeds.
All six articles are neutral toward the state government; they differ mainly in turnout figures, the number of bodies and how much space they give to YSRCP's allegations.
No real disagreement between sides in this coverage.
Why: Live-blog style report of vote counting logistics and a cyclone delay. It has no policy, identity or welfare angle and no framing of any government.
Why: Routine report on vote counting arrangements and turnout in municipal polls; no policy or ideological framing, and both coalition and opposition positions are described evenly.
Why: Routine counting-day report on a state civic poll; no policy, religion, social justice or statism angle. Gives both the NDA test and YSRCP's allegations without taking a side.
Why: Short results report on municipal vote counting with no policy, identity or welfare framing; it only lists party seat tallies in neutral wording.
Why: Plain report of early counting trends in Andhra civic polls; no policy, identity or welfare framing and no loaded language. Stance toward the state government is neutral.
Why: Procedural report on vote counting arrangements, a court ruling and contest numbers; no policy, identity or welfare framing, and both alliance and opposition expectations are given.
Critical, Neutral or Supportive, scored separately. It refers to the Union government unless the story is about a state. On the spectrum strip, each dot is an article: its position is the ideology score and its colour is the stance.
If an article would score differently with the parties' roles reversed, that signal is partisanship. It goes into the stance tag, not the ideology score.
High, Medium or Low, based on how much of the article was read, how many clear signals it has, and whether they agree.
Stories with fewer than five articles are marked. A blindspot is a contested story where we found coverage from only one side.
Articles that touch none of the three dimensions, such as a car launch or a match report, carry no ideology score.
This prototype is refreshed by hand (last on 17 Oct, 03:00 IST). At launch:
| Wires and the top 20 outlets | checked every 5 minutes |
| All other outlets | checked every 15 minutes |
| New story | goes up at 3 articles from 2 or more outlets, marked Limited coverage |
| Live stories | new articles added every 15 minutes; summary rewritten at most hourly |
| Home page order | every 15 minutes |
New facts go into a dated update log at the top of the story. New articles carry an “Added” tag. If a note or list changes, the earlier version stays viewable.
A story is Live while coverage arrives, Winding down after about 2 days without new coverage, and Archived after about 7. Sport results skip winding down and are archived after about 2 days, unless police or a court are involved. Nothing is deleted: links never change, archived scores are frozen, and stories stay on their issue pages and in search.
NDTV, India Today, Times of India, Hindustan Times, The Hindu, Indian Express, News18, ABP, Times Now and Mint block the reader used for this prototype, so their articles are missing. Each story shows how many of India’s 15 largest outlets we read. The launch pipeline will read outlets’ public feeds, TV transcripts and Hindi articles.
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