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