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