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