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