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