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