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