One Indian seafarer died when the Indian-flagged vessel MSV Al Jusufi was struck near Limah, Oman, on Monday, and 13 other crew were rescued. The MEA condemned the attack and called for de-escalation, while Minister Sarbananda Sonowal described the object that hit the vessel as unidentified.
Why it matters: Indian crews are exposed to risk on West Asian shipping routes, and the death adds to the toll of Indians killed in the regional conflict.
Based on 11 articles read in full. Scores describe each article's framing, not the outlet and not whether it is accurate.
Large outlets read: 7 of 15 (Times of India, Hindustan Times, The Hindu, India Today, ABP, Times Now, Jagran).
All three outlets report the official account in a neutral tone and differ only in which details they include.
No real disagreement between sides in this coverage.
Why: Straight report of an attack on an Indian vessel, relaying ministry statements; mild national-security angle but no loaded wording or partisan framing, so centre.
Why: Straight report of an attack on a vessel and official responses; no ideological framing on religion, social justice or statism, and no praise or criticism of the government.
Why: Plain report of an attack on a vessel and the official response, with no ideological framing on religion, social justice or statism. Relays government statements without praise or criticism.
Why: Reports an MEA statement and earlier official updates on attacks on ships with Indian crew. No ideological framing on religion, social justice or statism, and no praise or criticism of the government.
Why: Reports an MEA statement on a ship attack and a sailor's death; no religion, social justice or statism angle, and no government-policy framing beyond relaying the statement.
Why: Reports an attack on a ship and India's diplomatic response, relaying official statements. It touches no domestic ideological dimension and shows no loaded framing, so it is Neutral.
Why: Plain report of a seafarer's death and rescue, relayed from a minister's post. No policy, identity or social-justice angle, and no praise or criticism of the government.
Why: Plain report of an attack on an Indian vessel and the minister's statement; no ideological framing, no criticism or praise of government, and no policy angle on the scored dimensions.
Why: Plain report of a seafarer's death and the minister's confirmation. No religion, social justice or statism framing, and no praise or criticism of the government in the outlet's own voice.
Why: Plain report of an attack on an Indian vessel, relaying ministerial and MEA statements plus IRGC and UKMTO claims. No ideological framing on identity, social justice or statism; no praise or criticism of government.
Why: Plain relay of MEA statement condemning a ship attack and a minister's condolences; no contested policy framing touching the ideological dimensions, and no praise or criticism in the outlet's own voice.
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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