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