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