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