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