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