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