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