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