Mother Jones Magazine

Pros: Liberal magazine with very balanced and insightful stories
Cons: Only bimonthly

If you want a view on reality that is complementary to what the “Big Media” are feeding you, Mother Jones is a great choice. I was unaware that this leftist publication has been circulating for 29 years. Based in San Francisco and published ...

Pros: straight news without corporate influence; leftist outlook on life and the world
Cons: well, if you are conservative, there's plenty, but in my opinion: NONE!

Nursery rhyme collector? Nun who worked in Calcutta? Someone we learned about in school?

Each of these "descriptions" is equally inaccurate...In fact, Mother Jones was a liberal activist who worked for women's rights and...

Pros: Great Reporting, Liberal Point of View, Cheap Subscriptions
Cons: Only Comes Out 6 Times Per Year

Mother Jones is a great resource for anyone interested in the dealings of companies other than Microsoft and for those people who actually care about the world in which we live. Each issue of Mother Jones features an article about corporate exploitation...

Pros: Good, informative writing, low subscription price
Cons: only six times a year! Friends hardly ever give borrowed issues back

If you've ever been curious to find out what all that Agent Orange has been doing to people in Southeast Asia, or how the black churches across the country are dealing with the AIDS epidemic, then start reading this mag.
Mother Jones is...

Pros: Very interesting liberal leaning perspective. Low price $18 for 6 issues per year.
Cons: Sometimes views can be too unbalanced to maintain credibility.

This is a very interesting magazine that plays an important role within the U.S. media as a serious magazine covering current issues from a liberal perspective. In between covers, you get a lot of information and opinions at a pretty low price. The ...

Pros: Hard-hitting, often amusing.
Cons: Makes me remember the world is screwed up.

Although I'm amused by the cover headlines in the check-out line, I think it'd be great if the supermarkets had Mother Jones up there along with the Enquirer, the Weekly World News, and all that stuff. The stories in Mother Jones are every bit as...

Pros: Great politics
Cons: Too glossy and slick sometimes

This country has had a long history of socialist agitators and hell raisers though I didn't learn about any of them in the watered down c**p taught in school. Mother Jones magazine is named after one of the best, most fearless, dedicated, social justice...

Pros: Insightful, In-depth coverage, Stories not covered by other media establishements
Cons: Liberal Bias, Can be preachy occasionally

The best thing about Mother Jones is that the content is predominately original, and not to be found in other publications. There are stories given a great deal of attention in this magazine that never make it into the majority of national media...

Pros: Informative, diligent in its investigations
Cons: Occasionally uses shallow reasoning

Mother Jones doesn't hide its colors - it is liberal. I pick this magazine up three or four times a year at the bookstore; sometimes I like it, sometimes I don't.

Mother Jones is best as an investigative magazine and puts together a great...

Pros: Well researched stories which advance humanitarian causes
Cons: none

Mother Jones is a magazine that pulls no punches when it comes to exposing wrongs, furthering human rights, ripping open environmental issues, and presenting REAL news in an unbiased and well researched manner.

Typical stories in MJ deal with...

Pros: Exposes issues that sometimes get little or no press coverage.
Cons: A little too narrow-minded sometimes.

I've been reading Mother Jones for about 8 years now, and I have seen the magazine go through some editorial and design changes -- not all of them have been good.

On one hand, Mother Jones does expose issues that may get little or no coverage...

Pros: excellent coverage
Cons: flaky design standards

Mother Jones has changed it's format over the past several years, but it has remained loyal in covering some of the most interesting national issues. From Gay boyscouts to G. W. Bush's political hand-me-downs, Mother Jones presents a strong, opinionated...

Pros: Unabashedly liberal and NOT under the control of Rupert Murdock or the White House.
Cons: Would be hated by Consevatives (if they would read it!)

Contrary to the mythology perpetuated by the Right-Wing politicos currently in control of the inner workings of our Federal administration, the mainstream media is not, in fact, controlled by the Left. It is, in fact, as many thoughtful commentators have pointed out, being increasingly manipulated by the Right, itself. In this "Bizarre News" world of Rupert Murdock, Fox 'news', rigged election results and multiple fabricated conservative realities, Mother Jones is a true breath of fresh air. In its pages, the Liberal press lives on! In a style perhaps more sophisticated, but no less compelling and informative than the Realist of the 60's, Mother Jones fills in the gaps and corrects for the deliberately created distortions as reported by the mainstream press - on radio, TV and in print. Someone is lying. Reading each issue of Mother Jones helps me and my household keep some clarity about who, exactly, that is. We are Democrats, Liberals - and proud of both monikers. Mother Jones is an integral part of keeping our identities and values informed by well researched, thoughtful analysis and overall good journalism.

Pros: Decent content.
Cons:

I've had better customer service at fast food joints.

I am impressed with MJ content, but cancelled my subscription due to abysmally poor service issues. I was innundated with junk mail after subscribing (they sell your address to nonprofit direct mail lists) - a serious faux pas, I would think, in light of how much waste is created by junk mail. After I moved and updated my address, they never sent me my subscription. Six months later, they had the audacity to automatically charge my account and re-renew the subscription! It will take four weeks to redeposit it into my account, and meanwhile I'll have to pay the interest on it on my credit card. (Thanks, MJ!) I'll spend my dollars on a better publication - or read it online for free.