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