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