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