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