Friday Times is a popular newspaper in Pakistan, published from and headquartered in Pakistan. In this article, Mediabuzz is going to analyze Friday Times’s media bias and Friday 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 Friday Times along with its factual accuracy.
Media Bias Analysis Summary
After thorough research, we will conclude whether the Friday Timesis Left Leaning, Right Leaning or Centred in its approach. For Friday Times, we will go through several researches, studies, blind surveys, headline analysis, etc. to comment on Friday 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 Friday Times, we will flip through previous news articles of the publication and observe if Friday Times has published any factually incorrect information. Based on this, we will conclude that we have commented on the factual accuracy of Friday 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. Friday Times Media Bias Analysis
Under this section, we will briefly explain the factors that contribute towards our media bias conclusion for Friday Times. We will observe, analyse and comment on the Friday Times language used, presidential endorsement, controversies, allegations, political views of Friday Times’s editors, etc. to support our inference.
1. Friday Times Emotional Influence & Adjectives in Headlines
We will rummage through previous headlines of Friday Times to look out for usage of influential language, adjectives, emotionally charged words, etc. that suggests any bias of Friday Times towards any side of the spectrum.
2. Friday 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 Friday Times has endorsed in previous presidential elections to support Friday Times’s political bias.
3. Political leader’s Criticism of Friday Times
A political leader’s frequent criticism of Friday Times will also suggest about political inclination of the newspaper. In this section, we will observe if any political leader has criticised Friday Times in the past to support our arguments.
4. Allegations on Friday Times
Under this section, we will look out for any previous allegations against Friday Times by any political leader, party, organization or readers to support if Friday 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 Friday Times media bias. To substantiate our claims about Friday Times’s media bias inclination, we will cite these highly reliable sources and research from reputed organizations.
6. Audience of Friday Times
The audience of Friday Times also strongly suggests its media bias. Therefore, to further substantiate our claims, we will write about Friday Times’s audience whether they are democrats or republicans in their political affinities.
7. Friday 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 Friday Times social media accounts to look for clues that suggests Friday Times media bias.
8. Popular editors of Friday Times
Any popular person or editor associated with the Friday Times will also speak a lot about Friday Times’s media bias. We will analyze popular persons or editors of Friday Times that are directly or indirectly linked to any political party or ideology.
9. Friday Times CEO’s political views
In this section, we will look if Friday 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 Friday Times’s media bias.
B. Friday Times Factual Reporting Analysis
After Friday Times media bias, we will write about Friday Times’s factual reporting, to check whether Friday Times is reliable or not. There are several parameters on which we will be analyzing Friday Times’s factual accuracies and will comment if Friday Times has ever published any false or misleading reports.
1. Friday Times’s misleading or false news articles
We will look for Friday 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 Friday Times in its Op-Ed or news section.
2. Popular Fact-Checking Organizations’ Analysis of Friday 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 Friday Times to suggest if Friday Times has published false stories in the past or not.
3. Sources of Friday Times
Sources quotes by newspapers are also indicative of their reliability. We will check the sources quoted by Friday Times in their news stories to find out if Friday Times is factually reliable or not.
C. Friday 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 Friday Times.
D. History of Friday Times
Friday Times is based out of Pakistan and primarily published from Pakistan . In this section, we will comment about the history of Friday Times including Friday Times founder, Friday Times publisher, Friday Times circulation and Friday Times headquarters.
E. Friday Times Funding & Ownership
Under this section, mediabuzz will write about Friday Times’s investors, stakeholders and owners to analyze how Friday Times’s media bias and factual reliability is affected.
F. Readers of Friday Times
Under this section, we will provide you approximate numbers of readers Friday Times enjoy. It will also have an age-wise, demographic-wise, gender-wise and political opinion-wise distribution of Friday Times audience.
G. Friday Times Media Bias and Credibility – Conclusion
After a thorough analysis of Friday Times on the above mentioned parameters, we will sum up if Friday Times is a left, center or right biased newspaper. Based on the analysis, we will offer a judgement on whether Friday Times is a reliable or unreliable publication when factual reporting is concerned.