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