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