SOURCE INFORMATION: NOT TYPICALLY CONSERVATIVE
1. ECONOMIST
The Economist is very liberal (left wing) on social issues, but conservative (centre right) on economic issues. Now seems to slowly edge further and further left on economic issues.
What the magazine says for itself:
“What, besides free trade and free markets, does The Economist believe in? “It is to the Radicals that The Economist still likes to think of itself as belonging. The extreme centre is the paper’s historical position.”
As true today as when former Economist editor Geoffrey Crowther said it in 1955.
The Economist considers itself the enemy of privilege, pomposity and predictability. It has backed conservatives such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. It has supported the Americans in Vietnam. But it has also endorsed Harold Wilson and Bill Clinton, and espoused a variety of liberal causes: opposing capital punishment from its earliest days, while favouring penal reform and decolonisation, as well as—more recently—gun control and gay marriage.”
“However, now edging slowly further and further left on economic issues.” The Economist is owned by the Economist Group, which is a British multinational media company. They are primarily owned by the Cadbury, ROTHSCHILD, Schroder [3rd-way politics of Bill Clinton], Layton, and Agnelli families.
***A 2014 Pew Research Survey found that 59% of the ECONOMIST AUDIENCE is consistently or mostly liberal, 24% Mixed, and 18% consistently or mostly conservative.
This indicates that a more liberal audience prefers the Economist.
2. THE DURAN [Country: Cyprus]
LOW FACTUAL REPORTING LOW CREDIBILITY Questionable source with promotion of Russian propaganda, a lack of transparency, use of poor sources, plagiarism, and failed fact checks.
*The Duran’s director is Peter Lavelle, the host of RT’s (Russian state news outlet) political debate program CrossTalk.
[The Duran publishes news and opinions from a pro-Russian perspective. Some stories copied and pasted directly from the pro-Russian Strategic Culture Foundation. All articles involving Russia are generally positively slanted with many articles poorly sourced from Russian Propaganda outlets such as RT and Sputnik.
The Duran routinely publishes pro-Russian propaganda through the use of poorly sourced, plagiarized news articles.
SUMMARY The Duran as a Questionable source based on far-right-wing bias, promotion of Russian propaganda, right-wing conspiracies, a lack of transparency, use of poor sources, plagiarism, and failed fact checks.