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