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