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