Damon Linker

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Damon Linker
Damon Linker
Bias Rating Lean Left
Type Author
Region National
Website theweek.com/authors/damon-linker
What a Lean Left Bias Rating Means

The source displays media bias in ways that moderately align with liberal, progressive, or left-wing thought and/or policy agendas.

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About Damon Linker's Bias Rating

Damon Linker is a author source with an AllSides Media Bias Rating™ of Lean Left.

What a "Lean Left" Rating Means

Sources with an AllSides Media Bias Rating of Lean Left display media bias in ways that moderately align with liberal, progressive, or left-wing thought and/or policy agendas. A Lean Left bias is a moderately liberal rating on the political spectrum.

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Details

Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com, and has publicly proclaimed his own bias or political leaning. He is also a consulting editor at the University of Pennsylvania Press, a contributing editor at The New Republic, and the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test. Source: The Week: http://theweek.com/author/damon-linker

Self-proclaimed Center Left bias

Damon clearly expresses his bias (we applaud such transparency), considering himself "center left" in this opinion piece), and his stances on various issues (some described in "I'm not a Democrat. I'm an anti-Republican") is consistent with his self-rating as left of center. He is a senor correspondent at The Week (rated Lean Left).

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