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