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