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