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