Time Magazine Bias and Reliability

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Bias: Skews Left

Reliability: Reliable, Analysis/Fact Reporting

Overview

Ad Fontes Media rates Time Magazine in the Skews Left category of bias and as Reliable, Analysis/Fact Reporting in terms of reliability. Time Magazine is a weekly news magazine and website. It has been based in New York City since its first edition in 1923. Among other regular features, Time is known for its Person of the Year designation.

Overall Score

The following are the overall bias and reliability scores for Time Magazine according to our Ad Fontes Media ratings methodology.

Reliability: 41.18

Bias: -7.81

Panels of analysts from Ad Fontes Media regularly review representative sample content to rate it for reliability and bias. Each panel of analysts comprises one left-leaning, one right-leaning, and one center-leaning analyst.

The team considers a variety of factors when rating content. To determine its reliability score, we consider the content’s veracity, expression, its title/headline, and graphics. We add each of these scores to the chart on a weighted scale, with the average of those creating the sample content’s overall reliability score.

To determine sample content’s bias score, we consider its language, its political position, and how it compares to other reporting or analysis from other sources on the same topic. We add each of these scores to the chart on a weighted scale, with the average of those creating the content’s overall bias score.

The bias rating, demonstrated on the Media Bias Chart®️ on the horizontal axis, ranges from most extreme left to middle to most extreme right. The reliability rating, demonstrated on the chart’s vertical axis, rates sources on a scale from original fact reporting to analysis, opinion, propaganda and inaccurate/fabricated information.

Reliability scores for articles and shows are on a scale of 0-64. Scores above 40 are generally good; scores below 24 are generally problematic. Scores between 24-40 indicate a range of possibilities, with some sources falling there because they are heavy in opinion and analysis, and some because they have a high variation in reliability between articles.

Bias scores for articles and shows are on a scale of -42 to +42, with higher negative scores being more left, higher positive scores being more right, and scores closer to zero being minimally biased, equally balanced, or exhibiting a centrist bias.

Individual Content Sample Scores

These are the most recent content samples that Ad Fontes Media analysts have rated for this source.

Content Sample URL Bias Reliability
How Trump Steamrolled His Way to the GOP Nomination -12.67 32
Climate Gets Its Day in Court -5 42
The YouTube Parents Who are Turning Family Moments into Big Bucks 0 47
Lionel Messi: Athlete of the Year 2023 0 48
What Experts Say About the Palestinian Death Toll Figures -2 44.33
GOP Torn Between Guy With David Duke Scandal and Jan-6 Leader -18.67 32
Why China Needs to Learn to Live With Its Low Fertility Rate 0 46
Restrictions on Abortion Pill Could Set Off a Domino Effect -2.33 43.67
Maui Recovery Efforts Are 'Painstakingly Slow' 0 45.33
How Gang Violence Is Shaking Up Ecuador's Election 0 41.33
How John Fetterman Came Out of the Darkness -5.67 47
Maine Has the Lithium America Needs, But Won't Allow Mining 0 53.33
Fran Drescher on Why SAG-AFTRA Is Striking: Interview -2 41.67
Even AI Filmmakers Think Hollywood’s AI Proposal Is Dangerous 1.33 40.33
The Darwinian Argument for Worrying About AI -1 36.33
This Female Billionaire Thinks the Secret to Women's Wealth Is Poker 0 40
Israel Passes Judicial Overhaul That Will Test Its Democracy -8.33 37
Ron DeSantis' Latest Staff Shakeup Is Part of a Pattern 0.67 40.33
Inside the Barbie Movie: How the Massive Movie Came to Be -1.33 38.33
An Exhaustive List of (Almost) Every Single Reference in the Barbie Movie 0 38.33
What to Know About Ruth Handler, the Creator of Barbie 0 41
Science Studies Don't Actually Support Happiness Strategies 0 40
Infanticide in South Korea: What to Know -6.67 46
The Supreme Court’s Decision on Affirmative Action Must Not Be the Final Word -17.33 30.67
Transgender Bathroom: Advocates Say 'Predator' Is Myth -18.67 28.33

 

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