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