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