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