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