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