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My main complaint with the Economist (as a subscriber) is that it doesn't display it's biases openly - it often presents controversial economic or social positi
by Marazan 11y ago
My main complaint with the Economist (as a subscriber) is that it doesn't display it's biases openly - it often presents controversial economic or social positions as settled fact in a neutral style. If you didn't know the subject it was writing on you would think they were presenting the orthodox position.
- gcv 11y agoIf you didn't catch The Economist's biases on a cursory reading of one issue, that's on you. Simply skimming one of the leader opinion pieces and comparing it to, e.g., a Krugman column, should tell you that the authors would come to blows. Besides, what is an "orthodox" position? Whose?
- Marazan 11y agoI'm not talking about their overall world view I'm talking about their "Coffee growing in Guatamala" or "Cement production in the far east" articles - the ones where they are providing information on a relatively obscure subject. The articles present very matter of fact tones when in reality they are often reporting on one side of genuinely contraversial issues.
- dredmorbius 11y agoit doesn't display it's biases openly It actually does for some of them, in its prospectus, mentioned by me earlier in this thread. http://www.economist.com/node/1873493 http://www.economist.com/node/1873493 Wikipedia's article has more on the Newspaper's history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist
- dredmorbius 11y agoit doesn't display it's biases openly It actually does for some of them, in its prospectus, mentioned by me earlier in this thread. http://www.economist.com/node/1873493 http://www.economist.com/node/1873493 Wikipedia's article has more on the Newspaper's history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist