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