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