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