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