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