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