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