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