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