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