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