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