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