Digital 58 is a popular newspaper in Venezuela, published from and headquartered in Venezuela. In this article, Mediabuzz is going to analyze Digital 58’s media bias and Digital 58’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 Digital 58 along with its factual accuracy.
Media Bias Analysis Summary
After thorough research, we will conclude whether the Digital 58is Left Leaning, Right Leaning or Centred in its approach. For Digital 58, we will go through several researches, studies, blind surveys, headline analysis, etc. to comment on Digital 58’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 Digital 58, we will flip through previous news articles of the publication and observe if Digital 58 has published any factually incorrect information. Based on this, we will conclude that we have commented on the factual accuracy of Digital 58. Based on the above analysis, we will assign one of the media reliability meter out of all the three possible meters shown here.
A. Digital 58 Media Bias Analysis
Under this section, we will briefly explain the factors that contribute towards our media bias conclusion for Digital 58. We will observe, analyse and comment on the Digital 58 language used, presidential endorsement, controversies, allegations, political views of Digital 58’s editors, etc. to support our inference.
1. Digital 58 Emotional Influence & Adjectives in Headlines
We will rummage through previous headlines of Digital 58 to look out for usage of influential language, adjectives, emotionally charged words, etc. that suggests any bias of Digital 58 towards any side of the spectrum.
2. Digital 58 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 Digital 58 has endorsed in previous presidential elections to support Digital 58’s political bias.
3. Political leader’s Criticism of Digital 58
A political leader’s frequent criticism of Digital 58 will also suggest about political inclination of the newspaper. In this section, we will observe if any political leader has criticised Digital 58 in the past to support our arguments.
4. Allegations on Digital 58
Under this section, we will look out for any previous allegations against Digital 58 by any political leader, party, organization or readers to support if Digital 58 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 Digital 58 media bias. To substantiate our claims about Digital 58’s media bias inclination, we will cite these highly reliable sources and research from reputed organizations.
6. Audience of Digital 58
The audience of Digital 58 also strongly suggests its media bias. Therefore, to further substantiate our claims, we will write about Digital 58’s audience whether they are democrats or republicans in their political affinities.
7. Digital 58’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 Digital 58 social media accounts to look for clues that suggests Digital 58 media bias.
8. Popular editors of Digital 58
Any popular person or editor associated with the Digital 58 will also speak a lot about Digital 58’s media bias. We will analyze popular persons or editors of Digital 58 that are directly or indirectly linked to any political party or ideology.
9. Digital 58 CEO’s political views
In this section, we will look if Digital 58 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 Digital 58’s media bias.
B. Digital 58 Factual Reporting Analysis
After Digital 58 media bias, we will write about Digital 58’s factual reporting, to check whether Digital 58 is reliable or not. There are several parameters on which we will be analyzing Digital 58’s factual accuracies and will comment if Digital 58 has ever published any false or misleading reports.
1. Digital 58’s misleading or false news articles
We will look for Digital 58’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 Digital 58 in its Op-Ed or news section.
2. Popular Fact-Checking Organizations’ Analysis of Digital 58
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 Digital 58 to suggest if Digital 58 has published false stories in the past or not.
3. Sources of Digital 58
Sources quotes by newspapers are also indicative of their reliability. We will check the sources quoted by Digital 58 in their news stories to find out if Digital 58 is factually reliable or not.
C. Digital 58 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 Digital 58.
D. History of Digital 58
Digital 58 is based out of Venezuela and primarily published from Venezuela . In this section, we will comment about the history of Digital 58 including Digital 58 founder, Digital 58 publisher, Digital 58 circulation and Digital 58 headquarters.
E. Digital 58 Funding & Ownership
Under this section, mediabuzz will write about Digital 58’s investors, stakeholders and owners to analyze how Digital 58’s media bias and factual reliability is affected.
F. Readers of Digital 58
Under this section, we will provide you approximate numbers of readers Digital 58 enjoy. It will also have an age-wise, demographic-wise, gender-wise and political opinion-wise distribution of Digital 58 audience.
G. Digital 58 Media Bias and Credibility – Conclusion
After a thorough analysis of Digital 58 on the above mentioned parameters, we will sum up if Digital 58 is a left, center or right biased newspaper. Based on the analysis, we will offer a judgement on whether Digital 58 is a reliable or unreliable publication when factual reporting is concerned.