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