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