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