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