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