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