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