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