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