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