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