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