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