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