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