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