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