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