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