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