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