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