Chronicles Magazine (Rockford) – Bias and Credibility

Chronicles Magazine (Rockford) - Right Bias - Conservative - Republican - Not Credible

Factual Reporting: Mixed - Not always Credible or Reliable


RIGHT BIAS

These media sources are moderate to strongly biased toward conservative causes through story selection and/or political affiliation. They may utilize strong loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes), publish misleading reports and omit reporting of information that may damage conservative causes. Some sources in this category may be untrustworthy.

  • Overall, we rate Chronicles Magazine Right Biased based on story selection that favors the right and Mixed for factual reporting due to zero sourcing of information.

Detailed Report

Bias Rating: RIGHT
Factual Reporting: MIXED
Country: USA
Press Freedom Rating: MOSTLY FREE
Media Type: Magazine
Traffic/Popularity: Minimal Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: MEDIUM CREDIBILITY

History

Founded in 1976, Chronicles is a U.S. monthly magazine published by the Rockford Institute. Its full current name is Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. The magazine is known for promoting anti-globalism, anti-intervention, and anti-immigration stances within conservative politics and is considered one of the leading paleo-conservative publications.

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Funded by / Ownership

Chronicles Magazine is published by the Rockford Institute, an American conservative think-tank associated with paleo-conservatism, based in Rockford, Illinois. Chronicles are funded through a subscription and donation model.

Analysis / Bias

In review, Chronicles differs from other Conservative publications in that they are anti-interventionist militarily. They uphold a more Paleoconservative-Libertarian position in their writings. One of the most famous writers for this publication is well-known nationalist Patrick Buchanan. Chronicles use minimally loaded language in their articles, such as this: Commeration of Amiens. While this article is well written, it does not contain a hyperlink source but relies on block quotes. In fact, it isn’t easy to find any sourcing on this website. Virtually all stories favor the right.

In 2022, they promote vaccine hesitancy using unreliable sources Michelle Malkin such as this What Really Happened to Justin Bieber? They also have promoted election fraud conspiracies, as evidenced in this article https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/election-oddities/



Finally, Chronicles has been criticized by the Southern Poverty Law Center for promoting the Neo-Confederate Movement. In general, they are right-biased and sometimes promote misinformation.

Failed Fact Checks

  • None in the Last 5 years

Overall, we rate Chronicles Magazine Right Biased based on story selection that favors the right and Mixed for factual reporting due to zero sourcing of information. (6/18/2016) Updated (D. Van Zandt 8/10/2018) Updated (06/21/2022)

Source: https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/

Last Updated on May 19, 2023 by Media Bias Fact Check


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