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