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