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