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Portland Press Herald Media Bias and Portland Press Herald Factual Reporting Analysis

Portland Press Herald is a popular newspaper in United States (US), published from and headquartered in United States (US). In this article, Mediabuzz is going to analyze Portland Press Herald’s media bias and Portland Press Herald’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 Portland Press Herald along with its factual accuracy.

Media Bias Analysis Summary

After thorough research, we will conclude whether the Portland Press Heraldis Left Leaning, Right Leaning or Centred in its approach. For Portland Press Herald, we will go through several researches, studies, blind surveys, headline analysis, etc. to comment on Portland Press Herald’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.

right center
right
extreme right
left center
left
extreme left
center
 
 

Factual Reporting Summary

For commenting on the factual accuracy of the Portland Press Herald, we will flip through previous news articles of the publication and observe if Portland Press Herald has published any factually incorrect information. Based on this, we will conclude that we have commented on the factual accuracy of Portland Press Herald. Based on the above analysis, we will assign one of the media reliability meter out of all the three possible meters shown here.

slightly reliable
unreliable
highly reliable

A.   Portland Press Herald Media Bias Analysis

Under this section, we will briefly explain the factors that contribute towards our media bias conclusion for Portland Press Herald. We will observe, analyse and comment on the Portland Press Herald language used, presidential endorsement, controversies, allegations, political views of Portland Press Herald’s editors, etc. to support our inference.

1. Portland Press Herald Emotional Influence & Adjectives in Headlines

We will rummage through previous headlines of Portland Press Herald to look out for usage of influential language, adjectives, emotionally charged words, etc. that suggests any bias of Portland Press Herald towards any side of the spectrum.

2. Portland Press Herald 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 Portland Press Herald has endorsed in previous presidential elections to support Portland Press Herald’s political bias.

3. Political leader’s Criticism of Portland Press Herald

A political leader’s frequent criticism of Portland Press Herald will also suggest about political inclination of the newspaper. In this section, we will observe if any political leader has criticised Portland Press Herald in the past to support our arguments.

4. Allegations on Portland Press Herald

Under this section, we will look out for any previous allegations against Portland Press Herald by any political leader, party, organization or readers to support if Portland Press Herald 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 Portland Press Herald media bias. To substantiate our claims about Portland Press Herald’s media bias inclination, we will cite these highly reliable sources and research from reputed organizations.

6. Audience of Portland Press Herald

The audience of Portland Press Herald also strongly suggests its media bias. Therefore, to further substantiate our claims, we will write about Portland Press Herald’s audience whether they are democrats or republicans in their political affinities.

7. Portland Press Herald’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 Portland Press Herald social media accounts to look for clues that suggests Portland Press Herald media bias.

8. Popular editors of Portland Press Herald

Any popular person or editor associated with the Portland Press Herald will also speak a lot about Portland Press Herald’s media bias. We will analyze popular persons or editors of Portland Press Herald that are directly or indirectly linked to any political party or ideology.

9. Portland Press Herald CEO’s political views

In this section, we will look if Portland Press Herald 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 Portland Press Herald’s media bias.

B. Portland Press Herald Factual Reporting Analysis

After Portland Press Herald media bias, we will write about Portland Press Herald’s factual reporting, to check whether Portland Press Herald is reliable or not. There are several parameters on which we will be analyzing Portland Press Herald’s factual accuracies and will comment if Portland Press Herald has ever published any false or misleading reports.

1. Portland Press Herald’s misleading or false news articles

We will look for Portland Press Herald’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 Portland Press Herald in its Op-Ed or news section.

2. Popular Fact-Checking Organizations’ Analysis of Portland Press Herald

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 Portland Press Herald to suggest if Portland Press Herald has published false stories in the past or not.

3. Sources of Portland Press Herald

Sources quotes by newspapers are also indicative of their reliability. We will check the sources quoted by Portland Press Herald in their news stories to find out if Portland Press Herald is factually reliable or not.

C. Portland Press Herald 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 Portland Press Herald.

D. History of Portland Press Herald

Portland Press Herald is based out of United States (US) and primarily published from United States (US) . In this section, we will comment about the history of Portland Press Herald including Portland Press Herald founder, Portland Press Herald publisher, Portland Press Herald circulation and Portland Press Herald headquarters.

E. Portland Press Herald Funding & Ownership

Under this section, mediabuzz will write about Portland Press Herald’s investors, stakeholders and owners to analyze how Portland Press Herald’s media bias and factual reliability is affected.

F. Readers of Portland Press Herald

Under this section, we will provide you approximate numbers of readers Portland Press Herald enjoy. It will also have an age-wise, demographic-wise, gender-wise and political opinion-wise distribution of Portland Press Herald audience.

 

G. Portland Press Herald Media Bias and Credibility – Conclusion

After a thorough analysis of Portland Press Herald on the above mentioned parameters, we will sum up if Portland Press Herald is a left, center or right biased newspaper. Based on the analysis, we will offer a judgement on whether Portland Press Herald is a reliable or unreliable publication when factual reporting is concerned.

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