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