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