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