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