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