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