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