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Media 211/Fall 2021

Point of View in Leading Media Sources

Print magazines, web-based magazines, and newspapers that publish pieces on controversial topics usually have a point of view. Below are prominent, high quality sources grouped according to their political orientation. See the excellent Media Bias Ratings from Allsides. See also Vanessa Otero's remarkably comprehensive Media Bias Chart.

Clearly left-of-center/progressive
Dissent
Guardian
Mother Jones
Nation
New Statesman
Slate
Vox

Liberal

Atlantic
American Prospect
Bloomberg

Harpers
Huffington Post

New Republic
New York Review of Books
New York Times
New Yorker
Rolling Stone
Washington Post

Towards the middle

Economist
Wall Street Journal (reporting)

Conservative

Commentary
National Review
Spectator 
Wall Street Journal (editorial)

Weekly Standard

Clearly right of center/far right

Breitbart

Libertarian
Reason

Other quality magazines; no clear political orientation

Chronicle of Higher Education
Columbia Journalism Review
Communications of the ACM

Discover

New Scientist

MIT Technology Review

Scientific American

Significance
Skeptical Inquirer

Times Literary Supplement (TLS)