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