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