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