Transparent analysis you can understand and verify
Every article on The Balanced News displays a Left / Center / Right percentage breakdown. Here's how we calculate it.
Opposition perspectives, liberal/socialist framing, minority-focused narratives
Balanced reporting, regional perspectives, non-aligned viewpoints
Ruling coalition perspectives, nationalist framing, majority-focused narratives
Example: Left 15% | Center 60% | Right 25%
This means the article is mostly balanced but leans slightly toward ruling coalition perspectives.
We analyze each article through five key steps to determine its political lean
We identify all political parties, leaders, organizations, and alliances mentioned in the article.
We map entities to current coalition dynamics—ruling alliance, opposition alliance, or neutral positions.
We examine how each entity is portrayed—positive, negative, or neutral framing in the coverage.
We analyze the themes and issues presented, and how they align with different ideological positions.
Based on all factors, we calculate the Left/Center/Right percentage breakdown.
These patterns help identify political lean in news coverage
Indian politics doesn't map directly to Western left-right concepts. We analyze based on current coalition dynamics, not fixed ideological labels. A party's position can shift based on alliances and issues.
Bias scores indicate political lean, not accuracy or quality. Left-leaning, right-leaning, and centrist outlets can all do excellent journalism. The goal is transparency, not judgment.
We analyze each article independently. The same outlet might publish left-leaning, center, and right-leaning articles on different topics. We don't pre-label sources.
For genuinely apolitical content (natural disasters, sports, science), we default to Center: 100%. Not every article has political bias—and that's perfectly fine.