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