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