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