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