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Der Spiegel Media Bias and Der Spiegel Factual Reporting Analysis

Der Spiegel is a popular newspaper in Germany, published from and headquartered in Germany. In this article, Mediabuzz is going to analyze Der Spiegel’s media bias and Der Spiegel’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 Der Spiegel along with its factual accuracy.

Media Bias Analysis Summary

After thorough research, we will conclude whether the Der Spiegelis Left Leaning, Right Leaning or Centred in its approach. For Der Spiegel, we will go through several researches, studies, blind surveys, headline analysis, etc. to comment on Der Spiegel’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 Der Spiegel, we will flip through previous news articles of the publication and observe if Der Spiegel has published any factually incorrect information. Based on this, we will conclude that we have commented on the factual accuracy of Der Spiegel. 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.   Der Spiegel Media Bias Analysis

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

1. Der Spiegel Emotional Influence & Adjectives in Headlines

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

2. Der Spiegel 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 Der Spiegel has endorsed in previous presidential elections to support Der Spiegel’s political bias.

3. Political leader’s Criticism of Der Spiegel

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

4. Allegations on Der Spiegel

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

6. Audience of Der Spiegel

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

7. Der Spiegel’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 Der Spiegel social media accounts to look for clues that suggests Der Spiegel media bias.

8. Popular editors of Der Spiegel

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

9. Der Spiegel CEO’s political views

In this section, we will look if Der Spiegel 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 Der Spiegel’s media bias.

B. Der Spiegel Factual Reporting Analysis

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

1. Der Spiegel’s misleading or false news articles

We will look for Der Spiegel’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 Der Spiegel in its Op-Ed or news section.

2. Popular Fact-Checking Organizations’ Analysis of Der Spiegel

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 Der Spiegel to suggest if Der Spiegel has published false stories in the past or not.

3. Sources of Der Spiegel

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

C. Der Spiegel 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 Der Spiegel.

D. History of Der Spiegel

Der Spiegel is based out of Germany and primarily published from Germany . In this section, we will comment about the history of Der Spiegel including Der Spiegel founder, Der Spiegel publisher, Der Spiegel circulation and Der Spiegel headquarters.

E. Der Spiegel Funding & Ownership

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

F. Readers of Der Spiegel

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

 

G. Der Spiegel Media Bias and Credibility – Conclusion

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

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