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