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