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