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