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