Him Tortons<p>Recently someone I follow boosted a link to an article about why The Atlantic is a godawful magazine. I've read the article now and I highly recommend it.</p><p>The Worst Magazine in America, by Nathan J. Robinson<br><a href="https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-worst-magazine-in-america" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">currentaffairs.org/news/the-wo</span><span class="invisible">rst-magazine-in-america</span></a></p><p>A far-from-exhaustive list of points it makes:</p><p>- There is an astonishing lack of editorial oversight apparent in The Atlantic.</p><p>- The Atlantic routinely publishes pieces that are unsourced, misleading, and actively deceptive, and ignores experts' attempts to correct the "facts" it publishes.</p><p>- Through shoddy journalism, The Atlantic makes right-wing views palatable to a liberal audience.</p><p>In Robinson's words, his "basic criticism is that while it presents itself as a magazine of ideas—which makes readers feel as if they are engaging intelligently with important issues—it in fact covers those issues in such a superficial and slipshod way that people are liable to be left with a worse understanding of the issue than when they went in."</p><p><a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/TheAtlantic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheAtlantic</span></a></p>