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