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