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