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