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