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