I agree with you that it is difficult, and perhaps impossible to measure or achieve objectivity, but that is what they claim to have already done. In addition,

I agree with you that it is difficult, and perhaps impossible to measure or achieve objectivity, but that is what they claim to have already done. In addition, it is somewhat absurd to pretend that a magazine takes a position, when it is really the editorial board that makes all the decisions. If one wants to examine any potential biases, one should examine the record of each editor or columnist, not the entire 100+ year history of a collection of their works. I also agree with you that they may not have any source-based bias, but their claims are much broader: >The Economist has no permanent address on the left-right scale.