Is the Washington Monthly Liberal or Conservative?

[Progo35]

Hey, guys,

I was wondering if anyone reads the WM regularly and would like to opine in regards to whether it is L or C? I am trying to determine that because I'm writing about one of their articles on special education.

[Steven E. Webster]

Hey, guys,

I was wondering if anyone reads the WM regularly and would like to opine in regards to whether it is L or C? I am trying to determine that because I'm writing about one of their articles on special education.

Is it necessary to label everything "liberal" or "conservative"? Can't the article in question be judged on its own merits without reference to "liberal" or "conservative."

Steven Webster

[Progo35]

No, because I'm comparing the article I'm reading to another article in the New Republic, an extremely conservative publication, in an attempt to research whether animosity toward special education comes primarily from the right, the left, or both.

So, if you do read it, and would be so kind as to answer my question, I would appreciate it. If you're interested, you can access both articles on my "Staying Calm" thread-last post.

[Alecto]

I'm afraid I don't read it, but I would offer the possibility that some media sources are very overtly one or the other, while others are more complex than that. For some, it's about money and who owns them and how slanting things one way or another might help them (which MIGHT come down to L or C), and for others it might just come down to a history of the individual author. I do agree with you that everything has some bias, but I'm not sure that it's always really strong, or that it's always necessarily as simple as "lilberal" or "conservative".

[Progo35]

Of course things are more complicated than that. That's why I'm asking the question.