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