The Politics Behind a Magazine :: Media

The Politics cigarette a MagazineThe Progressive is a mag that was started in 1909. Mathew Rothschild, who was the editor of the Multinational Monitor a Ralph Nader founded pickup, is the current editor of the cartridge. The evidence of this magazine being slack is found by taking into account the overall visual design, the stance on arguments of the clauses, and the political stances of the authors that are published. In glancing through and through The Progressive and observing it visually a reader can compile a political viewpoint from its advertisements and pictures. The picture, which is seen on the cover of the magazines, is a movie of an article out of the magazine. For instance, in the 2001 Jan. issue the cover story is Aristide, again and the picture shows a Haitian man with a marked quarter round signifying that he has voted with the slums crowded with people as the background. Along with the world the U.S. does not approve of putting him back in power bu t for some Haitians, which are poor, he is the only one who is for the poor. Some of the advertisements in the magazine were books that appealed to people wanting to read about making a channelize such as the one trying to sale The Magnificent active that claimed the author was A Radical in His Era A oracle in Ours (The Progressive 40). There is a section in the magazine called On the Line which houses a collection of small articles that have pictures which can for the story they are telling and of them was an article called Striptease for the Trees. In this articles picture a women is radically protesting the clear cutting of calciums old Redwood Trees by hold outing in the lay of the road bare-chested in front of the logging trucks stopping their passage. From the advertisements and the covers eye ancestral artistic originality to the many pictures for the articles in the magazine a stance for the odd side is portrayed.The articles that are published in The Progressiv e illustrate the views of liberal authors through the topics they pick and the argument they use. When the background of the authors are checked and what they stand for is assessed then a political slant can be simulated on the magazine for choosing them.