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