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