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