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