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