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