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