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How to write like a reporter from The Economist
- johnchristopher 11y agoAren't number 1 and number 5 opposed ?
- HenryTheHorse 11y agoNot really. #1 is about using fresh and original figures of speech. #5 is about using plain language and avoiding jargon.
- johnchristopher 11y agoOkay.
- c_r_w 11y agoCan someone send this to Pando Daily, please? Love their content, dislike their style.
- vonnik 11y agoThis Mark Twain quote is mind-blowingly fantastic: “At times he may indulge himself with a long one, but he will make sure there are no folds in it, no vaguenesses, no parenthetical interruptions of its view as a whole; when he has done with it, it won't be a sea-serpent with half of its arches under the water; it will be a torch-light procession.”
- MarkMc 11y agoIronically, "How to write like a reporter from The Economist" sounds more like a headline that would appear in The Economist than "Style Guide"
- squeakywheel 11y agoI eat their dog food
- batz 11y agoMocks Populi There is a an apocryphal story in which your anonymous correspondent was on a small business jet somewhere between Davos and Dubai, when he asked a former Thatcher minister what shade of pink the Financial Times newspaper was. "Parlour," the minister replied. It is in the spirit of this self-referential anecdote that an auspicious news peg has provided an opportunity to sound off on a pet saw and perhaps let on that I went to Cambridge. Broadly, this newspaper is neither here nor there on a given issue, other than to say that it is different from what you expect - and for reasons that may surprise you. The prediction will be driven by the available data, include a smirk at the newcomer, and give a sop to the status quo. All things equal, it will predict outcomes that are some function of the sum of elements by the number of elements, and provide a view that is "radically centerist," if perhaps a bit smug. A reversion to the mean, indeed. -- Every Economist Article Ever