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