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