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