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