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