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