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