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