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