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