Bias in Journals

All journals and newspapers have a bias. It may be only in the editorials, it may be throughout the material, but there is always a bias. Learn to use the biases to your advantage, not to ignore them. By selecting sources that reflect a wide variety of biases, you will automatically acquire materials that address various points of view concerning your topic.

To find out whether we own a journal, search for the title in JournaLocator. If the title is not listed there, check in GALILEO. These are just a few of our journals with general notes as to their content, bias, or point-of-view that each can carry. Librarians have access to many tools that provide more information about journals; consult with them if you want to learn more.

America -- Liberal Roman Catholic American Enterprise -- Mixed Animals Agenda -- Animal rights Atlantic -- Moderate to slightly left     [Called Atlantic Monthly as of 1993] Brookings Review -- Independent economics; moderate Catholic Worker -- Roman Catholic activist Christian Century -- Liberal Christianity and Crisis -- Liberal Protestant Christianity Today -- Conservative Protestant Chronicles -- Nationalist/Isonationalist Church and State -- Separation of church and state Commentary -- Moderate to right Jewish Commonweal -- Liberal Roman Catholic Currents in Theology and Mission -- Liberal Lutheran Dissent -- Socialist Economist -- British Conservative/free trade Encounter -- British, scholarly, mixed Far Eastern Economic Review -- Dow-Jones subsidiary/regional view Feminist Issues -- Feminist, international     [now: Gender Issues 01/98] Feminist Studies -- Feminist cultural Flame -- Feminist, religious [last vol #20 - 1995] Forbes -- Capitalist, free-market Foreign Affairs -- Mixed Hastings Center Report -- Bioethics; balanced Human Events -- Far Right Hypatia -- Feminist  Intercollegiate Review -- Conservative Interpretation -- Conservative Protestant

Media Report to Women -- Feminist, media issues Midstream -- Conservative Jewish Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine --           Socialist Nation -- Socialist/Marxist National Review -- Conservative New Criterion -- Neo-conservative New Perspectives Quarterly -- Mixed with liberal editors New Republic -- Liberal New Statesman/Society -- British Liberal Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom -- Anti-censorship Newsweek -- Moderate Orbis -- Moderate [last vol #41 - 1997] Policy Analysis -- Conservative Progressive -- Liberal Public Interest -- Conservative Reader's Digest -- Conservative Science & Society -- Marxist Sierra -- Environmental Tikkun -- Liberal Jewish Time -- Heavy but inconsistent bias U.S. News & World Report -- Moderate to conservative Vital Speeches of the Day -- Conservative Wilderness -- Environmental [last issue #211 - 1996] Z Magazine -- Liberal