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