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