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