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