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