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