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