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