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