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