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