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