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