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Okay.ng Media Bias and Okay.ng Factual Reporting Analysis

Okay.ng is a popular newspaper in Nigeria, published from and headquartered in Nigeria. In this article, Mediabuzz is going to analyze Okay.ng’s media bias and Okay.ng’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 Okay.ng along with its factual accuracy.

Media Bias Analysis Summary

After thorough research, we will conclude whether the Okay.ngis Left Leaning, Right Leaning or Centred in its approach. For Okay.ng, we will go through several researches, studies, blind surveys, headline analysis, etc. to comment on Okay.ng’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.

right center
right
extreme right
left center
left
extreme left
center
 
 

Factual Reporting Summary

For commenting on the factual accuracy of the Okay.ng, we will flip through previous news articles of the publication and observe if Okay.ng has published any factually incorrect information. Based on this, we will conclude that we have commented on the factual accuracy of Okay.ng. Based on the above analysis, we will assign one of the media reliability meter out of all the three possible meters shown here.

slightly reliable
unreliable
highly reliable

A.   Okay.ng Media Bias Analysis

Under this section, we will briefly explain the factors that contribute towards our media bias conclusion for Okay.ng. We will observe, analyse and comment on the Okay.ng language used, presidential endorsement, controversies, allegations, political views of Okay.ng’s editors, etc. to support our inference.

1. Okay.ng Emotional Influence & Adjectives in Headlines

We will rummage through previous headlines of Okay.ng to look out for usage of influential language, adjectives, emotionally charged words, etc. that suggests any bias of Okay.ng towards any side of the spectrum.

2. Okay.ng 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 Okay.ng has endorsed in previous presidential elections to support Okay.ng’s political bias.

3. Political leader’s Criticism of Okay.ng

A political leader’s frequent criticism of Okay.ng will also suggest about political inclination of the newspaper. In this section, we will observe if any political leader has criticised Okay.ng in the past to support our arguments.

4. Allegations on Okay.ng

Under this section, we will look out for any previous allegations against Okay.ng by any political leader, party, organization or readers to support if Okay.ng 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 Okay.ng media bias. To substantiate our claims about Okay.ng’s media bias inclination, we will cite these highly reliable sources and research from reputed organizations.

6. Audience of Okay.ng

The audience of Okay.ng also strongly suggests its media bias. Therefore, to further substantiate our claims, we will write about Okay.ng’s audience whether they are democrats or republicans in their political affinities.

7. Okay.ng’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 Okay.ng social media accounts to look for clues that suggests Okay.ng media bias.

8. Popular editors of Okay.ng

Any popular person or editor associated with the Okay.ng will also speak a lot about Okay.ng’s media bias. We will analyze popular persons or editors of Okay.ng that are directly or indirectly linked to any political party or ideology.

9. Okay.ng CEO’s political views

In this section, we will look if Okay.ng 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 Okay.ng’s media bias.

B. Okay.ng Factual Reporting Analysis

After Okay.ng media bias, we will write about Okay.ng’s factual reporting, to check whether Okay.ng is reliable or not. There are several parameters on which we will be analyzing Okay.ng’s factual accuracies and will comment if Okay.ng has ever published any false or misleading reports.

1. Okay.ng’s misleading or false news articles

We will look for Okay.ng’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 Okay.ng in its Op-Ed or news section.

2. Popular Fact-Checking Organizations’ Analysis of Okay.ng

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 Okay.ng to suggest if Okay.ng has published false stories in the past or not.

3. Sources of Okay.ng

Sources quotes by newspapers are also indicative of their reliability. We will check the sources quoted by Okay.ng in their news stories to find out if Okay.ng is factually reliable or not.

C. Okay.ng 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 Okay.ng.

D. History of Okay.ng

Okay.ng is based out of Nigeria and primarily published from Nigeria . In this section, we will comment about the history of Okay.ng including Okay.ng founder, Okay.ng publisher, Okay.ng circulation and Okay.ng headquarters.

E. Okay.ng Funding & Ownership

Under this section, mediabuzz will write about Okay.ng’s investors, stakeholders and owners to analyze how Okay.ng’s media bias and factual reliability is affected.

F. Readers of Okay.ng

Under this section, we will provide you approximate numbers of readers Okay.ng enjoy. It will also have an age-wise, demographic-wise, gender-wise and political opinion-wise distribution of Okay.ng audience.

 

G. Okay.ng Media Bias and Credibility – Conclusion

After a thorough analysis of Okay.ng on the above mentioned parameters, we will sum up if Okay.ng is a left, center or right biased newspaper. Based on the analysis, we will offer a judgement on whether Okay.ng is a reliable or unreliable publication when factual reporting is concerned.

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