Bengali Times is a popular newspaper in Canada, published from and headquartered in Canada. In this article, Mediabuzz is going to analyze Bengali Times’s media bias and Bengali Times’s factual reporting on the basis of its coverage, language used, presidential endorsements, media reports, research and blind surveys. We have also commented on the left or right biasedness of the Bengali Times along with its factual accuracy.
Media Bias Analysis Summary
After thorough research, we will conclude whether the Bengali Timesis Left Leaning, Right Leaning or Centred in its approach. For Bengali Times, we will go through several researches, studies, blind surveys, headline analysis, etc. to comment on Bengali Times’s media bias. Based on the above analysis, we will assign one of the media bias meter out of all the seven possible meters shown here.
Factual Reporting Summary
For commenting on the factual accuracy of the Bengali Times, we will flip through previous news articles of the publication and observe if Bengali Times has published any factually incorrect information. Based on this, we will conclude that we have commented on the factual accuracy of Bengali Times. Based on the above analysis, we will assign one of the media reliability meter out of all the three possible meters shown here.
A. Bengali Times Media Bias Analysis
Under this section, we will briefly explain the factors that contribute towards our media bias conclusion for Bengali Times. We will observe, analyse and comment on the Bengali Times language used, presidential endorsement, controversies, allegations, political views of Bengali Times’s editors, etc. to support our inference.
1. Bengali Times Emotional Influence & Adjectives in Headlines
We will rummage through previous headlines of Bengali Times to look out for usage of influential language, adjectives, emotionally charged words, etc. that suggests any bias of Bengali Times towards any side of the spectrum.
2. Bengali Times Endorsement of President
Endorsement of presidential candidates in elections comments strongly about a newspaper’s affiliation towards left or right. We will look out for candidates that Bengali Times has endorsed in previous presidential elections to support Bengali Times’s political bias.
3. Political leader’s Criticism of Bengali Times
A political leader’s frequent criticism of Bengali Times will also suggest about political inclination of the newspaper. In this section, we will observe if any political leader has criticised Bengali Times in the past to support our arguments.
4. Allegations on Bengali Times
Under this section, we will look out for any previous allegations against Bengali Times by any political leader, party, organization or readers to support if Bengali Times is biased towards left, right or center.
5. Media Bias Articles from Research Papers, Institutions, etc.
Several reputed fact checking and media bias analytics organizations conduct thorough surveys and research to write about Bengali Times media bias. To substantiate our claims about Bengali Times’s media bias inclination, we will cite these highly reliable sources and research from reputed organizations.
6. Audience of Bengali Times
The audience of Bengali Times also strongly suggests its media bias. Therefore, to further substantiate our claims, we will write about Bengali Times’s audience whether they are democrats or republicans in their political affinities.
7. Bengali Times’s controversial statements and tweets
Several newspapers make controversial statements or tweets on social media that reflect their affinity towards any ideology. We will flip through Bengali Times social media accounts to look for clues that suggests Bengali Times media bias.
8. Popular editors of Bengali Times
Any popular person or editor associated with the Bengali Times will also speak a lot about Bengali Times’s media bias. We will analyze popular persons or editors of Bengali Times that are directly or indirectly linked to any political party or ideology.
9. Bengali Times CEO’s political views
In this section, we will look if Bengali Times CEO supports or sponsors any political party directly or indirectly. We will look for his tweets, statements, opinion pieces, and controversies that will take us towards Bengali Times’s media bias.
B. Bengali Times Factual Reporting Analysis
After Bengali Times media bias, we will write about Bengali Times’s factual reporting, to check whether Bengali Times is reliable or not. There are several parameters on which we will be analyzing Bengali Times’s factual accuracies and will comment if Bengali Times has ever published any false or misleading reports.
1. Bengali Times’s misleading or false news articles
We will look for Bengali Times’s previous history if it has ever intentionally or unintentionally published any fake news, false or misleading reports to influence audience. We will also write about false claims made by Bengali Times in its Op-Ed or news section.
2. Popular Fact-Checking Organizations’ Analysis of Bengali Times
Several fact-checking organizations including Politico, FactCheck, Snopes, Poynter, etc. conduct frequent fact-check on news articles published by newspapers. We will list down fact-checks that mentioned Bengali Times to suggest if Bengali Times has published false stories in the past or not.
3. Sources of Bengali Times
Sources quotes by newspapers are also indicative of their reliability. We will check the sources quoted by Bengali Times in their news stories to find out if Bengali Times is factually reliable or not.
C. Bengali Times Reliability Ratings by Fact-Checking Organizations
Several organizations across the globe independently conduct thorough research and studies on the pattern of news coverage by mainstream media. These websites study the articles published by the news media with the help of professionals and rate them on the basis of bias and reliability. Under this section, we will find out what other fact-checking organizations and media monitors have to say about Bengali Times.
D. History of Bengali Times
Bengali Times is based out of Canada and primarily published from Canada . In this section, we will comment about the history of Bengali Times including Bengali Times founder, Bengali Times publisher, Bengali Times circulation and Bengali Times headquarters.
E. Bengali Times Funding & Ownership
Under this section, mediabuzz will write about Bengali Times’s investors, stakeholders and owners to analyze how Bengali Times’s media bias and factual reliability is affected.
F. Readers of Bengali Times
Under this section, we will provide you approximate numbers of readers Bengali Times enjoy. It will also have an age-wise, demographic-wise, gender-wise and political opinion-wise distribution of Bengali Times audience.
G. Bengali Times Media Bias and Credibility – Conclusion
After a thorough analysis of Bengali Times on the above mentioned parameters, we will sum up if Bengali Times is a left, center or right biased newspaper. Based on the analysis, we will offer a judgement on whether Bengali Times is a reliable or unreliable publication when factual reporting is concerned.