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