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