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