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