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The Economist has gotten a lot dumber in the past 5-10 years.
by sayrer 19y ago
The Economist has gotten a lot dumber in the past 5-10 years.
- rms 19y agoThey still tell it like it is more than any other print publication I know of. Do you have something else you would recommend?
- sgoraya 19y agoI would recommend Harvard Business Review - The economist is still a good read in my opinion though; Similar to the argument that Economist is not as strong as prior years, people have been trashing Scientific American as well, saying that the content has diluted, but I'll keep reading it ;)
- falsestprophet 19y agoI think that The Economist is a much more than adequate source of news and (centrist libertarian) opinion. But, from time to time, I stop by my school's library to read some scholarly journals of political science and international affairs to try to understand a little more about how the world works. I think it is also valuable to read the work of non-mainstream thinkers. Noam Chomsky, in particular, says some important things (alongside some bizarre things to be sure). To be honest, I am much less familiar with and sympathetic to polar ultraright opinion. I recommend all of these things.
- rms 19y ago>Noam Chomsky, in particular, says some important things (alongside some bizarre things to be sure). I wish there was a publication of the anti-CFR set that wasn't fringe and crazy...
- asdflkj 19y ago"Like it is"? Have you read their "Case for War"? Thanks to the English magazine's clever rhetorical strategy, calibrating an effective mixture of aristocratic contempt, two-notches-smarter-than-Newsweek diction, and occasional anti-elitist populism to pander to its majority-American readership, readers trust The Economist. They - particularly American readers - trust it because they think it knows more than they do; this is its entire appeal. They even get a sick thrill being talked down to by a dirty old aristocratic prig. For Americans in particular, accustomed to the lifeless, dumbed-down, least-common-denominator prose in their own media, reading The Economist is its own reward, giving them the sense not only that they're smarter than the average Time subscriber, but that it even makes them vaguely decadent, in a literary-aristocratic sort of way. They become smarter by osmosis simply by being in the imagined drawing room of The Economist's wit-slinging editorial offices. http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=10127&IBLOCK_ID=35&PAGE=1 http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=10127&... The Exile, a tabloid though it may be, had predicted exactly what would happen in Iraq.
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- jgamman 19y agochances are reading the economist for 5-10 years has made you smarter...