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