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