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