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