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