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