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