20 minutes is a popular newspaper in France, published from and headquartered in France. In this article, Mediabuzz is going to analyze 20 minutes’s media bias and 20 minutes’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 20 minutes along with its factual accuracy.
Media Bias Analysis Summary
After thorough research, we will conclude whether the 20 minutesis Left Leaning, Right Leaning or Centred in its approach. For 20 minutes, we will go through several researches, studies, blind surveys, headline analysis, etc. to comment on 20 minutes’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 20 minutes, we will flip through previous news articles of the publication and observe if 20 minutes has published any factually incorrect information. Based on this, we will conclude that we have commented on the factual accuracy of 20 minutes. Based on the above analysis, we will assign one of the media reliability meter out of all the three possible meters shown here.
A. 20 minutes Media Bias Analysis
Under this section, we will briefly explain the factors that contribute towards our media bias conclusion for 20 minutes. We will observe, analyse and comment on the 20 minutes language used, presidential endorsement, controversies, allegations, political views of 20 minutes’s editors, etc. to support our inference.
1. 20 minutes Emotional Influence & Adjectives in Headlines
We will rummage through previous headlines of 20 minutes to look out for usage of influential language, adjectives, emotionally charged words, etc. that suggests any bias of 20 minutes towards any side of the spectrum.
2. 20 minutes 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 20 minutes has endorsed in previous presidential elections to support 20 minutes’s political bias.
3. Political leader’s Criticism of 20 minutes
A political leader’s frequent criticism of 20 minutes will also suggest about political inclination of the newspaper. In this section, we will observe if any political leader has criticised 20 minutes in the past to support our arguments.
4. Allegations on 20 minutes
Under this section, we will look out for any previous allegations against 20 minutes by any political leader, party, organization or readers to support if 20 minutes 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 20 minutes media bias. To substantiate our claims about 20 minutes’s media bias inclination, we will cite these highly reliable sources and research from reputed organizations.
6. Audience of 20 minutes
The audience of 20 minutes also strongly suggests its media bias. Therefore, to further substantiate our claims, we will write about 20 minutes’s audience whether they are democrats or republicans in their political affinities.
7. 20 minutes’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 20 minutes social media accounts to look for clues that suggests 20 minutes media bias.
8. Popular editors of 20 minutes
Any popular person or editor associated with the 20 minutes will also speak a lot about 20 minutes’s media bias. We will analyze popular persons or editors of 20 minutes that are directly or indirectly linked to any political party or ideology.
9. 20 minutes CEO’s political views
In this section, we will look if 20 minutes 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 20 minutes’s media bias.
B. 20 minutes Factual Reporting Analysis
After 20 minutes media bias, we will write about 20 minutes’s factual reporting, to check whether 20 minutes is reliable or not. There are several parameters on which we will be analyzing 20 minutes’s factual accuracies and will comment if 20 minutes has ever published any false or misleading reports.
1. 20 minutes’s misleading or false news articles
We will look for 20 minutes’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 20 minutes in its Op-Ed or news section.
2. Popular Fact-Checking Organizations’ Analysis of 20 minutes
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 20 minutes to suggest if 20 minutes has published false stories in the past or not.
3. Sources of 20 minutes
Sources quotes by newspapers are also indicative of their reliability. We will check the sources quoted by 20 minutes in their news stories to find out if 20 minutes is factually reliable or not.
C. 20 minutes 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 20 minutes.
D. History of 20 minutes
20 minutes is based out of France and primarily published from France . In this section, we will comment about the history of 20 minutes including 20 minutes founder, 20 minutes publisher, 20 minutes circulation and 20 minutes headquarters.
E. 20 minutes Funding & Ownership
Under this section, mediabuzz will write about 20 minutes’s investors, stakeholders and owners to analyze how 20 minutes’s media bias and factual reliability is affected.
F. Readers of 20 minutes
Under this section, we will provide you approximate numbers of readers 20 minutes enjoy. It will also have an age-wise, demographic-wise, gender-wise and political opinion-wise distribution of 20 minutes audience.
G. 20 minutes Media Bias and Credibility – Conclusion
After a thorough analysis of 20 minutes on the above mentioned parameters, we will sum up if 20 minutes is a left, center or right biased newspaper. Based on the analysis, we will offer a judgement on whether 20 minutes is a reliable or unreliable publication when factual reporting is concerned.