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