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Al-Alam Media Bias and Al-Alam Factual Reporting Analysis

Al-Alam is a popular newspaper in Iran, published from and headquartered in Iran. In this article, Mediabuzz is going to analyze Al-Alam’s media bias and Al-Alam’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-Alam along with its factual accuracy.

Media Bias Analysis Summary

After thorough research, we will conclude whether the Al-Alamis Left Leaning, Right Leaning or Centred in its approach. For Al-Alam, we will go through several researches, studies, blind surveys, headline analysis, etc. to comment on Al-Alam’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.

right center
right
extreme right
left center
left
extreme left
center
 
 

Factual Reporting Summary

For commenting on the factual accuracy of the Al-Alam, we will flip through previous news articles of the publication and observe if Al-Alam has published any factually incorrect information. Based on this, we will conclude that we have commented on the factual accuracy of Al-Alam. Based on the above analysis, we will assign one of the media reliability meter out of all the three possible meters shown here.

slightly reliable
unreliable
highly reliable

A.   Al-Alam Media Bias Analysis

Under this section, we will briefly explain the factors that contribute towards our media bias conclusion for Al-Alam. We will observe, analyse and comment on the Al-Alam language used, presidential endorsement, controversies, allegations, political views of Al-Alam’s editors, etc. to support our inference.

1. Al-Alam Emotional Influence & Adjectives in Headlines

We will rummage through previous headlines of Al-Alam to look out for usage of influential language, adjectives, emotionally charged words, etc. that suggests any bias of Al-Alam towards any side of the spectrum.

2. Al-Alam 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-Alam has endorsed in previous presidential elections to support Al-Alam’s political bias.

3. Political leader’s Criticism of Al-Alam

A political leader’s frequent criticism of Al-Alam will also suggest about political inclination of the newspaper. In this section, we will observe if any political leader has criticised Al-Alam in the past to support our arguments.

4. Allegations on Al-Alam

Under this section, we will look out for any previous allegations against Al-Alam by any political leader, party, organization or readers to support if Al-Alam 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-Alam media bias. To substantiate our claims about Al-Alam’s media bias inclination, we will cite these highly reliable sources and research from reputed organizations.

6. Audience of Al-Alam

The audience of Al-Alam also strongly suggests its media bias. Therefore, to further substantiate our claims, we will write about Al-Alam’s audience whether they are democrats or republicans in their political affinities.

7. Al-Alam’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-Alam social media accounts to look for clues that suggests Al-Alam media bias.

8. Popular editors of Al-Alam

Any popular person or editor associated with the Al-Alam will also speak a lot about Al-Alam’s media bias. We will analyze popular persons or editors of Al-Alam that are directly or indirectly linked to any political party or ideology.

9. Al-Alam CEO’s political views

In this section, we will look if Al-Alam 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-Alam’s media bias.

B. Al-Alam Factual Reporting Analysis

After Al-Alam media bias, we will write about Al-Alam’s factual reporting, to check whether Al-Alam is reliable or not. There are several parameters on which we will be analyzing Al-Alam’s factual accuracies and will comment if Al-Alam has ever published any false or misleading reports.

1. Al-Alam’s misleading or false news articles

We will look for Al-Alam’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-Alam in its Op-Ed or news section.

2. Popular Fact-Checking Organizations’ Analysis of Al-Alam

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-Alam to suggest if Al-Alam has published false stories in the past or not.

3. Sources of Al-Alam

Sources quotes by newspapers are also indicative of their reliability. We will check the sources quoted by Al-Alam in their news stories to find out if Al-Alam is factually reliable or not.

C. Al-Alam 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-Alam.

D. History of Al-Alam

Al-Alam is based out of Iran and primarily published from Iran . In this section, we will comment about the history of Al-Alam including Al-Alam founder, Al-Alam publisher, Al-Alam circulation and Al-Alam headquarters.

E. Al-Alam Funding & Ownership

Under this section, mediabuzz will write about Al-Alam’s investors, stakeholders and owners to analyze how Al-Alam’s media bias and factual reliability is affected.

F. Readers of Al-Alam

Under this section, we will provide you approximate numbers of readers Al-Alam enjoy. It will also have an age-wise, demographic-wise, gender-wise and political opinion-wise distribution of Al-Alam audience.

 

G. Al-Alam Media Bias and Credibility – Conclusion

After a thorough analysis of Al-Alam on the above mentioned parameters, we will sum up if Al-Alam is a left, center or right biased newspaper. Based on the analysis, we will offer a judgement on whether Al-Alam is a reliable or unreliable publication when factual reporting is concerned.

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