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