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