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