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