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