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