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