A Supreme Court bench led by Justice Vikram Nath declined to list urgently a plea alleging airfares rose by nearly 700 per cent, and the judge said 'Don't travel by air'. The Centre has notified new aviation rules that leave fares to the market and allow it to intervene only in extraordinary situations.
Why it matters: Festival-season airfares affect crores of travellers, and the case shows how far courts and the Centre will step in on private airline pricing.
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Based on 8 articles read in full. Scores describe each article's framing, not the outlet and not whether it is accurate.
Large outlets read: 5 of 15 (Times of India, Hindustan Times, ABP, Dainik Bhaskar, Jagran).
All six articles report the same court exchange and rules in a neutral tone; they differ mainly in which background details they add.
No real disagreement between sides in this coverage.
Why: Reports court remark and the government's market-driven fare policy with no ideological framing. Slight market-led tilt from the no-cap policy being relayed neutrally; no praise or criticism.
Why: Mainly a court report on airfare regulation. It touches consumer protection and state regulation only lightly, with no loaded framing, so it sits at the centre and is neutral toward the Centre.
Why: Court report on airfare cap plea touches market regulation versus consumer protection; mostly neutral procedural reporting, with plea's pro-regulation arguments given space, so only slightly left on statism.
Why: Court report on airfare plea with little ideological framing; touches regulation mildly, but no loaded wording or one-sided sourcing. Balanced mention of Centre's rule-making and court's past criticism.
Why: Mostly a factual report of a court refusal and new fare rules. Slight market-leaning in noting airlines can set fares freely, but no loaded wording or advocacy.
Why: Reports the court exchange plainly; mentions the market-led airfare policy without praise or criticism. Only the statism dimension is touched, giving a slight market-leaning tilt.
Why: Court-procedure report on airfare plea; touches regulation lightly, with no partisan framing or loaded wording. Both court remarks and Centre's rule-making are reported neutrally, so it is near-centre.
Why: Reports the court's refusal and the pending regulation case in a plain manner. It touches consumer regulation only lightly, with no loaded language and no clear ideological lean.
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. 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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