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