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