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Political Perspectives of Magazines and Journals |
Some periodicals will have a
specific political or cultural bias. This may be reflected in their choice of
issues to report on, their tendency to express certain political or cultural
opinions and advocate certain types of solutions to social problems, or both.
If your research project requires you to examine a given topic from one or more
political perspectives, the following list of titles might be useful. Please
note, however, that the categories listed below are quite broad and not all
periodicals in a given category will necessarily be in close agreement on all
issues.
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Liberal/Progressive/"Left
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Conservative/"Right wing" |
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American Prospect |
American |
Many popular magazines
will attempt to include a variety of perspectives within every issue, and
therefore cannot be identified on the whole with any specific political agenda.
Examples include Time, U.S. News and World Report, and Rolling Stone. However, each of these
periodicals may reflect other biases, not identifiable on a simple
conservative-liberal scale, which determine what type of news
and opinions they are likely to contain and how the writers tend to treat their
subjects.
For more information about the biases and emphases of individual magazines and journals, do a Wikipedia search for the publication title or consult the reference book, Magazines for Libraries, available at the library reference desk. Another way to try to find out more information about any periodical is to find the website for the periodical (search Google to find the website) and look for links such as "About Us" or "Who We Are".
Some political
magazines and journals are associated with "think tanks" (also
referred to as policy institutes or research centers)--
organizations that develop research and/or analysis of policy issues, usually
from particular political perspectives. An excellent set of links to lists and
descriptions of think tanks is accessible from the
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last revised: 10-20-10 |
