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