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