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