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