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