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