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