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