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