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