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West Seattle Herald Media Bias and West Seattle Herald Factual Reporting Analysis

West Seattle Herald is a popular newspaper in United States (US), published from and headquartered in United States (US). In this article, Mediabuzz is going to analyze West Seattle Herald’s media bias and West Seattle Herald’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 West Seattle Herald along with its factual accuracy.

Media Bias Analysis Summary

After thorough research, we will conclude whether the West Seattle Heraldis Left Leaning, Right Leaning or Centred in its approach. For West Seattle Herald, we will go through several researches, studies, blind surveys, headline analysis, etc. to comment on West Seattle Herald’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.

right center
right
extreme right
left center
left
extreme left
center
 
 

Factual Reporting Summary

For commenting on the factual accuracy of the West Seattle Herald, we will flip through previous news articles of the publication and observe if West Seattle Herald has published any factually incorrect information. Based on this, we will conclude that we have commented on the factual accuracy of West Seattle Herald. Based on the above analysis, we will assign one of the media reliability meter out of all the three possible meters shown here.

slightly reliable
unreliable
highly reliable

A.   West Seattle Herald Media Bias Analysis

Under this section, we will briefly explain the factors that contribute towards our media bias conclusion for West Seattle Herald. We will observe, analyse and comment on the West Seattle Herald language used, presidential endorsement, controversies, allegations, political views of West Seattle Herald’s editors, etc. to support our inference.

1. West Seattle Herald Emotional Influence & Adjectives in Headlines

We will rummage through previous headlines of West Seattle Herald to look out for usage of influential language, adjectives, emotionally charged words, etc. that suggests any bias of West Seattle Herald towards any side of the spectrum.

2. West Seattle Herald 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 West Seattle Herald has endorsed in previous presidential elections to support West Seattle Herald’s political bias.

3. Political leader’s Criticism of West Seattle Herald

A political leader’s frequent criticism of West Seattle Herald will also suggest about political inclination of the newspaper. In this section, we will observe if any political leader has criticised West Seattle Herald in the past to support our arguments.

4. Allegations on West Seattle Herald

Under this section, we will look out for any previous allegations against West Seattle Herald by any political leader, party, organization or readers to support if West Seattle Herald 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 West Seattle Herald media bias. To substantiate our claims about West Seattle Herald’s media bias inclination, we will cite these highly reliable sources and research from reputed organizations.

6. Audience of West Seattle Herald

The audience of West Seattle Herald also strongly suggests its media bias. Therefore, to further substantiate our claims, we will write about West Seattle Herald’s audience whether they are democrats or republicans in their political affinities.

7. West Seattle Herald’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 West Seattle Herald social media accounts to look for clues that suggests West Seattle Herald media bias.

8. Popular editors of West Seattle Herald

Any popular person or editor associated with the West Seattle Herald will also speak a lot about West Seattle Herald’s media bias. We will analyze popular persons or editors of West Seattle Herald that are directly or indirectly linked to any political party or ideology.

9. West Seattle Herald CEO’s political views

In this section, we will look if West Seattle Herald 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 West Seattle Herald’s media bias.

B. West Seattle Herald Factual Reporting Analysis

After West Seattle Herald media bias, we will write about West Seattle Herald’s factual reporting, to check whether West Seattle Herald is reliable or not. There are several parameters on which we will be analyzing West Seattle Herald’s factual accuracies and will comment if West Seattle Herald has ever published any false or misleading reports.

1. West Seattle Herald’s misleading or false news articles

We will look for West Seattle Herald’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 West Seattle Herald in its Op-Ed or news section.

2. Popular Fact-Checking Organizations’ Analysis of West Seattle Herald

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 West Seattle Herald to suggest if West Seattle Herald has published false stories in the past or not.

3. Sources of West Seattle Herald

Sources quotes by newspapers are also indicative of their reliability. We will check the sources quoted by West Seattle Herald in their news stories to find out if West Seattle Herald is factually reliable or not.

C. West Seattle Herald 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 West Seattle Herald.

D. History of West Seattle Herald

West Seattle Herald is based out of United States (US) and primarily published from United States (US) . In this section, we will comment about the history of West Seattle Herald including West Seattle Herald founder, West Seattle Herald publisher, West Seattle Herald circulation and West Seattle Herald headquarters.

E. West Seattle Herald Funding & Ownership

Under this section, mediabuzz will write about West Seattle Herald’s investors, stakeholders and owners to analyze how West Seattle Herald’s media bias and factual reliability is affected.

F. Readers of West Seattle Herald

Under this section, we will provide you approximate numbers of readers West Seattle Herald enjoy. It will also have an age-wise, demographic-wise, gender-wise and political opinion-wise distribution of West Seattle Herald audience.

 

G. West Seattle Herald Media Bias and Credibility – Conclusion

After a thorough analysis of West Seattle Herald on the above mentioned parameters, we will sum up if West Seattle Herald is a left, center or right biased newspaper. Based on the analysis, we will offer a judgement on whether West Seattle Herald is a reliable or unreliable publication when factual reporting is concerned.

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