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