[eclypsion]

I'm doing a project for a government class on media..
I don't really know too much about it but would everyone agree that Time Magazine is considered liberal?
I read an article that said they don't even try to be objective haha.

[xshady121]

Originally Posted by eclypsion

I'm doing a project for a government class on media..
I don't really know too much about it but would everyone agree that Time Magazine is considered liberal?
I read an article that said they don't even try to be objective haha.

You better be careful. There are a few posters here who would claim that there is no such thing as a liberal bias in the media. And, to an extent, that is true. A good study on the subject, published by David Niven, showed that there is no discernible bias between major news organizations and publications.

With that said, I think it's obvious that some papers tend to lean more one way or the other (specifically with editorials, which never are intended to be objective in the first place). You could look at papers like the Wall Street Journal or New York Times for papers that tend to lean one way or the other. However, I am not aware of any certain bias within Time magazine. I did know that some reporters had resigned during Vietnam due to the magazine's distortion of the scene there, but I don't think it's enough to say "They don't even try to be objective" . I'd be interested in reading that article if you could find it.

Good luck.

[eclypsion]

Originally Posted by xshady121

You better be careful. There are a few posters here who would claim that there is no such thing as a liberal bias in the media. And, to an extent, that is true. A good study on the subject, published by David Niven, showed that there is no discernible bias between major news organizations and publications.

With that said, I think it's obvious that some papers tend to lean more one way or the other (specifically with editorials, which never are intended to be objective in the first place). You could look at papers like the Wall Street Journal or New York Times for papers that tend to lean one way or the other. However, I am not aware of any certain bias within Time magazine. I did know that some reporters had resigned during Vietnam due to the magazine's distortion of the scene there, but I don't think it's enough to say "They don't even try to be objective" . I'd be interested in reading that article if you could find it.

Good luck.

Thanks for the response. Yeah I don't know enough on the subject so in attempting to do some research I stumbled upon that article. http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-po...-iwo-jima-phot
"I didn't go to journalism school," Stengel said. "But this notion that journalism is objective, or must be objective is something that has always bothered me - because the notion about objectivity is in some ways a fantasy. I don't know that there is as such a thing as objectivity."

Another article I found
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/gl...ime/print.html
Time Magazine: the liberal bias of facts

Refusing to resolve competing claims about reality is the staple of journalistic "balance" Glenn Greenwald

I don't know the legitimacy of any of these sources so I was trying to figure it out. Basically I just have to answer the question is there a liberal or conservative bias but it is also possible to say they try to objective.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-po...-iwo-jima-phot

[xshady121]

Originally Posted by eclypsion

Thanks for the response. Yeah I don't know enough on the subject so in attempting to do some research I stumbled upon that article. http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-po...-iwo-jima-phot
"I didn't go to journalism school," Stengel said. "But this notion that journalism is objective, or must be objective is something that has always bothered me - because the notion about objectivity is in some ways a fantasy. I don't know that there is as such a thing as objectivity."

Another article I found
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/gl...ime/print.html
Time Magazine: the liberal bias of facts

Refusing to resolve competing claims about reality is the staple of journalistic "balance" Glenn Greenwald

I don't know the legitimacy of any of these sources so I was trying to figure it out. Basically I just have to answer the question is there a liberal or conservative bias but it is also possible to say they try to objective.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-po...-iwo-jima-phot

I would take anything Greenwald says with a grain of salt. He is a conservative reporter, and it shows in his writing. With that said, I'll go take a look through my Media and Politics notes from last semester. I don't remember anything specifically related to Time magazine, but I'll see if I'm mistake.

[Waldorf]

I'd say timely views.

[eclypsion]

Originally Posted by xshady121

I would take anything Greenwald says with a grain of salt. He is a conservative reporter, and it shows in his writing. With that said, I'll go take a look through my Media and Politics notes from last semester. I don't remember anything specifically related to Time magazine, but I'll see if I'm mistake.

Oh see I'll openly admit I don't have enough background knowledge to know that he is a conservative reporter either.
I don't consistently read Time but I volunteered to pick it as my topic anyway, also a problem.
Another article I just ran into:

"Times Liberal Bias Taught in Schools"
http://www.cultureandmediainstitute....430140854.aspx
Now I don't know anything about the author of this article either and the quotes could be taken out of context.

and "Is Time Magazine Liberal or Conservative?" http://www.democraticunderground.com...=389 x1273433
but I can't really derive a clear answer.

[xshady121]

Originally Posted by eclypsion

Oh see I'll openly admit I don't have enough background knowledge to know that he is a conservative reporter either.
I don't consistently read Time but I volunteered to pick it as my topic anyway, also a problem.
Another article I just ran into:

"Times Liberal Bias Taught in Schools"
http://www.cultureandmediainstitute....430140854.aspx
Now I don't know anything about the author of this article either and the quotes could be taken out of context.

and "Is Time Magazine Liberal or Conservative?" http://www.democraticunderground.com...=389 x1273433
but I can't really derive a clear answer.

A quick lexis nexis search turned up this quote, from the Washington Times 12/29/01.

Quote:

In pure theory, of course, these people could keep their leftist bias out of their reportage. But they don't, as some of them across the years have incautiously conceded. Thus, the late William A. Henry III of Time magazine admitted, "We're unpopular because the press tends to be liberal, and I don't think we can run away from that." And CBS correspondent Bernard Goldberg, writing in the Wall Street Journal several years ago, was even blunter: "The old argument that the networks and other 'media elites' have a liberal bias is so blatantly true that it's hardly worth discussing anymore."

[xshady121]

This also might help you out a bit.

http://www.economics.harvard.edu/fac.../bw04_0614.pdf

[eclypsion]

Originally Posted by xshady121

A quick lexis nexis search turned up this quote, from the Washington Times 12/29/01.

Originally Posted by xshady121

This also might help you out a bit.

http://www.economics.harvard.edu/fac.../bw04_0614.pdf

Those actually help a lot, thank you.

[xshady121]

Originally Posted by eclypsion

Those actually help a lot, thank you.

I don't know if you have access to Lexis/Nexis or Jstorr, but it would be good to do a search on either of those (or Google Scholar-- which is free) and look for some combination of "media bias liberal time magazine" and read through published articles and their sources. At the least, the sources might help point you in the right direction.

[aoftbsten]

You should have made this a poll, it would have made this a lot easier for you.

[eclypsion]

Originally Posted by aoftbsten

You should have made this a poll, it would have made this a lot easier for you.

I agree.

[Sventhegreat]

Originally Posted by aoftbsten

You should have made this a poll, it would have made this a lot easier for you.

He was looking more for information, not just Liberal or Conservative. And what are the odds the poll would be anywhere near the real answer.

[aoftbsten]

Originally Posted by Sventhegreat

SHe was looking more for information, not just Liberal or Conservative. And what are the odds the poll would be anywhere near the real answer.

One: Edit above
Two: OP agreed with me
Three: What are the odds that everyone saying if it's conservative or liberal would be anywhere near the real answer?

It would make it easier to get the general idea by putting it into a number, then you go and review people's reasons for whether it's conservative or liberal and see why one has the majority.

[BEERfortheBEAR]

I don't know that much on the subject, but doesn't TIME just run articles from whoever wrote them? I don't think they have a writing staff, do they? So it would seem to me that if the author had a bit of a lean, that article would lean that way, but then the next article could lean the other. (Again, I don't read it often at all, and don't know much about it, so I could be very wrong.)