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