20 Minuten is a popular newspaper in Switzerland, published from and headquartered in Switzerland. In this article, Mediabuzz is going to analyze 20 Minuten’s media bias and 20 Minuten’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 20 Minuten along with its factual accuracy.
Media Bias Analysis Summary
After thorough research, we will conclude whether the 20 Minutenis Left Leaning, Right Leaning or Centred in its approach. For 20 Minuten, we will go through several researches, studies, blind surveys, headline analysis, etc. to comment on 20 Minuten’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 20 Minuten, we will flip through previous news articles of the publication and observe if 20 Minuten has published any factually incorrect information. Based on this, we will conclude that we have commented on the factual accuracy of 20 Minuten. Based on the above analysis, we will assign one of the media reliability meter out of all the three possible meters shown here.
A. 20 Minuten Media Bias Analysis
Under this section, we will briefly explain the factors that contribute towards our media bias conclusion for 20 Minuten. We will observe, analyse and comment on the 20 Minuten language used, presidential endorsement, controversies, allegations, political views of 20 Minuten’s editors, etc. to support our inference.
1. 20 Minuten Emotional Influence & Adjectives in Headlines
We will rummage through previous headlines of 20 Minuten to look out for usage of influential language, adjectives, emotionally charged words, etc. that suggests any bias of 20 Minuten towards any side of the spectrum.
2. 20 Minuten 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 20 Minuten has endorsed in previous presidential elections to support 20 Minuten’s political bias.
3. Political leader’s Criticism of 20 Minuten
A political leader’s frequent criticism of 20 Minuten will also suggest about political inclination of the newspaper. In this section, we will observe if any political leader has criticised 20 Minuten in the past to support our arguments.
4. Allegations on 20 Minuten
Under this section, we will look out for any previous allegations against 20 Minuten by any political leader, party, organization or readers to support if 20 Minuten 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 20 Minuten media bias. To substantiate our claims about 20 Minuten’s media bias inclination, we will cite these highly reliable sources and research from reputed organizations.
6. Audience of 20 Minuten
The audience of 20 Minuten also strongly suggests its media bias. Therefore, to further substantiate our claims, we will write about 20 Minuten’s audience whether they are democrats or republicans in their political affinities.
7. 20 Minuten’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 20 Minuten social media accounts to look for clues that suggests 20 Minuten media bias.
8. Popular editors of 20 Minuten
Any popular person or editor associated with the 20 Minuten will also speak a lot about 20 Minuten’s media bias. We will analyze popular persons or editors of 20 Minuten that are directly or indirectly linked to any political party or ideology.
9. 20 Minuten CEO’s political views
In this section, we will look if 20 Minuten 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 20 Minuten’s media bias.
B. 20 Minuten Factual Reporting Analysis
After 20 Minuten media bias, we will write about 20 Minuten’s factual reporting, to check whether 20 Minuten is reliable or not. There are several parameters on which we will be analyzing 20 Minuten’s factual accuracies and will comment if 20 Minuten has ever published any false or misleading reports.
1. 20 Minuten’s misleading or false news articles
We will look for 20 Minuten’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 20 Minuten in its Op-Ed or news section.
2. Popular Fact-Checking Organizations’ Analysis of 20 Minuten
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 20 Minuten to suggest if 20 Minuten has published false stories in the past or not.
3. Sources of 20 Minuten
Sources quotes by newspapers are also indicative of their reliability. We will check the sources quoted by 20 Minuten in their news stories to find out if 20 Minuten is factually reliable or not.
C. 20 Minuten 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 20 Minuten.
D. History of 20 Minuten
20 Minuten is based out of Switzerland and primarily published from Switzerland . In this section, we will comment about the history of 20 Minuten including 20 Minuten founder, 20 Minuten publisher, 20 Minuten circulation and 20 Minuten headquarters.
E. 20 Minuten Funding & Ownership
Under this section, mediabuzz will write about 20 Minuten’s investors, stakeholders and owners to analyze how 20 Minuten’s media bias and factual reliability is affected.
F. Readers of 20 Minuten
Under this section, we will provide you approximate numbers of readers 20 Minuten enjoy. It will also have an age-wise, demographic-wise, gender-wise and political opinion-wise distribution of 20 Minuten audience.
G. 20 Minuten Media Bias and Credibility – Conclusion
After a thorough analysis of 20 Minuten on the above mentioned parameters, we will sum up if 20 Minuten is a left, center or right biased newspaper. Based on the analysis, we will offer a judgement on whether 20 Minuten is a reliable or unreliable publication when factual reporting is concerned.