Tico Deporte is a popular newspaper in Costa Rica, published from and headquartered in Costa Rica. In this article, Mediabuzz is going to analyze Tico Deporte’s media bias and Tico Deporte’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 Tico Deporte along with its factual accuracy.
Media Bias Analysis Summary
After thorough research, we will conclude whether the Tico Deporteis Left Leaning, Right Leaning or Centred in its approach. For Tico Deporte, we will go through several researches, studies, blind surveys, headline analysis, etc. to comment on Tico Deporte’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 Tico Deporte, we will flip through previous news articles of the publication and observe if Tico Deporte has published any factually incorrect information. Based on this, we will conclude that we have commented on the factual accuracy of Tico Deporte. Based on the above analysis, we will assign one of the media reliability meter out of all the three possible meters shown here.



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