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