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