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Sierra Leone Telegraph Media Bias and Sierra Leone Telegraph Factual Reporting Analysis

Sierra Leone Telegraph is a popular newspaper in Sierra Leone, published from and headquartered in Sierra Leone. In this article, Mediabuzz is going to analyze Sierra Leone Telegraph’s media bias and Sierra Leone Telegraph’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 Leone Telegraph along with its factual accuracy.

Media Bias Analysis Summary

After thorough research, we will conclude whether the Sierra Leone Telegraphis Left Leaning, Right Leaning or Centred in its approach. For Sierra Leone Telegraph, we will go through several researches, studies, blind surveys, headline analysis, etc. to comment on Sierra Leone Telegraph’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.

right center
right
extreme right
left center
left
extreme left
center
 
 

Factual Reporting Summary

For commenting on the factual accuracy of the Sierra Leone Telegraph, we will flip through previous news articles of the publication and observe if Sierra Leone Telegraph has published any factually incorrect information. Based on this, we will conclude that we have commented on the factual accuracy of Sierra Leone Telegraph. Based on the above analysis, we will assign one of the media reliability meter out of all the three possible meters shown here.

slightly reliable
unreliable
highly reliable

A.   Sierra Leone Telegraph Media Bias Analysis

Under this section, we will briefly explain the factors that contribute towards our media bias conclusion for Sierra Leone Telegraph. We will observe, analyse and comment on the Sierra Leone Telegraph language used, presidential endorsement, controversies, allegations, political views of Sierra Leone Telegraph’s editors, etc. to support our inference.

1. Sierra Leone Telegraph Emotional Influence & Adjectives in Headlines

We will rummage through previous headlines of Sierra Leone Telegraph to look out for usage of influential language, adjectives, emotionally charged words, etc. that suggests any bias of Sierra Leone Telegraph towards any side of the spectrum.

2. Sierra Leone Telegraph 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 Leone Telegraph has endorsed in previous presidential elections to support Sierra Leone Telegraph’s political bias.

3. Political leader’s Criticism of Sierra Leone Telegraph

A political leader’s frequent criticism of Sierra Leone Telegraph will also suggest about political inclination of the newspaper. In this section, we will observe if any political leader has criticised Sierra Leone Telegraph in the past to support our arguments.

4. Allegations on Sierra Leone Telegraph

Under this section, we will look out for any previous allegations against Sierra Leone Telegraph by any political leader, party, organization or readers to support if Sierra Leone Telegraph 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 Leone Telegraph media bias. To substantiate our claims about Sierra Leone Telegraph’s media bias inclination, we will cite these highly reliable sources and research from reputed organizations.

6. Audience of Sierra Leone Telegraph

The audience of Sierra Leone Telegraph also strongly suggests its media bias. Therefore, to further substantiate our claims, we will write about Sierra Leone Telegraph’s audience whether they are democrats or republicans in their political affinities.

7. Sierra Leone Telegraph’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 Leone Telegraph social media accounts to look for clues that suggests Sierra Leone Telegraph media bias.

8. Popular editors of Sierra Leone Telegraph

Any popular person or editor associated with the Sierra Leone Telegraph will also speak a lot about Sierra Leone Telegraph’s media bias. We will analyze popular persons or editors of Sierra Leone Telegraph that are directly or indirectly linked to any political party or ideology.

9. Sierra Leone Telegraph CEO’s political views

In this section, we will look if Sierra Leone Telegraph 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 Leone Telegraph’s media bias.

B. Sierra Leone Telegraph Factual Reporting Analysis

After Sierra Leone Telegraph media bias, we will write about Sierra Leone Telegraph’s factual reporting, to check whether Sierra Leone Telegraph is reliable or not. There are several parameters on which we will be analyzing Sierra Leone Telegraph’s factual accuracies and will comment if Sierra Leone Telegraph has ever published any false or misleading reports.

1. Sierra Leone Telegraph’s misleading or false news articles

We will look for Sierra Leone Telegraph’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 Leone Telegraph in its Op-Ed or news section.

2. Popular Fact-Checking Organizations’ Analysis of Sierra Leone Telegraph

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 Leone Telegraph to suggest if Sierra Leone Telegraph has published false stories in the past or not.

3. Sources of Sierra Leone Telegraph

Sources quotes by newspapers are also indicative of their reliability. We will check the sources quoted by Sierra Leone Telegraph in their news stories to find out if Sierra Leone Telegraph is factually reliable or not.

C. Sierra Leone Telegraph 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 Leone Telegraph.

D. History of Sierra Leone Telegraph

Sierra Leone Telegraph is based out of Sierra Leone and primarily published from Sierra Leone . In this section, we will comment about the history of Sierra Leone Telegraph including Sierra Leone Telegraph founder, Sierra Leone Telegraph publisher, Sierra Leone Telegraph circulation and Sierra Leone Telegraph headquarters.

E. Sierra Leone Telegraph Funding & Ownership

Under this section, mediabuzz will write about Sierra Leone Telegraph’s investors, stakeholders and owners to analyze how Sierra Leone Telegraph’s media bias and factual reliability is affected.

F. Readers of Sierra Leone Telegraph

Under this section, we will provide you approximate numbers of readers Sierra Leone Telegraph enjoy. It will also have an age-wise, demographic-wise, gender-wise and political opinion-wise distribution of Sierra Leone Telegraph audience.

 

G. Sierra Leone Telegraph Media Bias and Credibility – Conclusion

After a thorough analysis of Sierra Leone Telegraph on the above mentioned parameters, we will sum up if Sierra Leone Telegraph is a left, center or right biased newspaper. Based on the analysis, we will offer a judgement on whether Sierra Leone Telegraph is a reliable or unreliable publication when factual reporting is concerned.

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