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