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