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