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