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