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Daily Mirror Media Bias and Daily Mirror Factual Reporting Analysis

Daily Mirror is a popular newspaper in Sri Lanka, published from and headquartered in Sri Lanka. In this article, Mediabuzz is going to analyze Daily Mirror’s media bias and Daily Mirror’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 Mirror along with its factual accuracy.

Media Bias Analysis Summary

After thorough research, we will conclude whether the Daily Mirroris Left Leaning, Right Leaning or Centred in its approach. For Daily Mirror, we will go through several researches, studies, blind surveys, headline analysis, etc. to comment on Daily Mirror’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.

right center
right
extreme right
left center
left
extreme left
center
 
 

Factual Reporting Summary

For commenting on the factual accuracy of the Daily Mirror, we will flip through previous news articles of the publication and observe if Daily Mirror has published any factually incorrect information. Based on this, we will conclude that we have commented on the factual accuracy of Daily Mirror. Based on the above analysis, we will assign one of the media reliability meter out of all the three possible meters shown here.

slightly reliable
unreliable
highly reliable

A.   Daily Mirror Media Bias Analysis

Under this section, we will briefly explain the factors that contribute towards our media bias conclusion for Daily Mirror. We will observe, analyse and comment on the Daily Mirror language used, presidential endorsement, controversies, allegations, political views of Daily Mirror’s editors, etc. to support our inference.

1. Daily Mirror Emotional Influence & Adjectives in Headlines

We will rummage through previous headlines of Daily Mirror to look out for usage of influential language, adjectives, emotionally charged words, etc. that suggests any bias of Daily Mirror towards any side of the spectrum.

2. Daily Mirror 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 Mirror has endorsed in previous presidential elections to support Daily Mirror’s political bias.

3. Political leader’s Criticism of Daily Mirror

A political leader’s frequent criticism of Daily Mirror will also suggest about political inclination of the newspaper. In this section, we will observe if any political leader has criticised Daily Mirror in the past to support our arguments.

4. Allegations on Daily Mirror

Under this section, we will look out for any previous allegations against Daily Mirror by any political leader, party, organization or readers to support if Daily Mirror 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 Mirror media bias. To substantiate our claims about Daily Mirror’s media bias inclination, we will cite these highly reliable sources and research from reputed organizations.

6. Audience of Daily Mirror

The audience of Daily Mirror also strongly suggests its media bias. Therefore, to further substantiate our claims, we will write about Daily Mirror’s audience whether they are democrats or republicans in their political affinities.

7. Daily Mirror’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 Mirror social media accounts to look for clues that suggests Daily Mirror media bias.

8. Popular editors of Daily Mirror

Any popular person or editor associated with the Daily Mirror will also speak a lot about Daily Mirror’s media bias. We will analyze popular persons or editors of Daily Mirror that are directly or indirectly linked to any political party or ideology.

9. Daily Mirror CEO’s political views

In this section, we will look if Daily Mirror 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 Mirror’s media bias.

B. Daily Mirror Factual Reporting Analysis

After Daily Mirror media bias, we will write about Daily Mirror’s factual reporting, to check whether Daily Mirror is reliable or not. There are several parameters on which we will be analyzing Daily Mirror’s factual accuracies and will comment if Daily Mirror has ever published any false or misleading reports.

1. Daily Mirror’s misleading or false news articles

We will look for Daily Mirror’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 Mirror in its Op-Ed or news section.

2. Popular Fact-Checking Organizations’ Analysis of Daily Mirror

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 Mirror to suggest if Daily Mirror has published false stories in the past or not.

3. Sources of Daily Mirror

Sources quotes by newspapers are also indicative of their reliability. We will check the sources quoted by Daily Mirror in their news stories to find out if Daily Mirror is factually reliable or not.

C. Daily Mirror 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 Mirror.

D. History of Daily Mirror

Daily Mirror is based out of Sri Lanka and primarily published from Sri Lanka . In this section, we will comment about the history of Daily Mirror including Daily Mirror founder, Daily Mirror publisher, Daily Mirror circulation and Daily Mirror headquarters.

E. Daily Mirror Funding & Ownership

Under this section, mediabuzz will write about Daily Mirror’s investors, stakeholders and owners to analyze how Daily Mirror’s media bias and factual reliability is affected.

F. Readers of Daily Mirror

Under this section, we will provide you approximate numbers of readers Daily Mirror enjoy. It will also have an age-wise, demographic-wise, gender-wise and political opinion-wise distribution of Daily Mirror audience.

 

G. Daily Mirror Media Bias and Credibility – Conclusion

After a thorough analysis of Daily Mirror on the above mentioned parameters, we will sum up if Daily Mirror is a left, center or right biased newspaper. Based on the analysis, we will offer a judgement on whether Daily Mirror is a reliable or unreliable publication when factual reporting is concerned.

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