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