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