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