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Is Frontline biased?

Polyview rates Frontline Left. Its story selection and framing reliably favour left-of-centre positions. The rating is relative to the political centre of India, and reflects story selection, framing, word choice and sourcing in its news coverage, plus the weight of its opinion section.

What Frontline chooses to cover (last 72 hours)

Frontline covered 8 stories that other outlets also reported. Across those stories, 39% of the coverage came from left-leaning outlets, 43% from the centre and 18% from the right, against 29% / 45% / 26% across every story on Polyview. It leans towards stories that left-leaning outlets care about. It was first to report 4 of them, and covered 2 stories that outlets on the other side largely ignored.

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Who owns Frontline?

Frontline is owned by THG Publishing (Kasturi family) (family-owned).

How factual is Frontline?

Polyview rates the factuality of Frontline High. Its reporting is generally accurate and well sourced, with corrections when it errs.

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Stories Frontline covered

Last 72 hours, compared with how the rest of the press covered them