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