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