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The Economist is a good weekly review; the stories are very short but the information density is high.

by copperx 10y ago

Patrick_Devine 10y ago
I'd also echo that The Economist is well worth a subscription. It also has the interesting quirk that doesn't use bylines and all articles are published anonymously.
nnvvhh 10y ago
+1 for the Economist. You get much more value than what you pay for an annual subscription. This week's edition has a letter to the editor from the president of Peru... It's that kind of publication.
sien 10y ago
That and listen to a short, quality news bulletin once a day like NPR or the BBC is all you want.
RachelF 10y ago
You'll battle to find a better source than The Economist. It is not as good as it was, as their editor was replaced last year.
narrator 10y ago
The problem I have with the economist is they mix opinion into almost everything they report. It's a very British aristocratic opinion. I can almost hear the exaggerated accent sometimes when reading it, like it's a Monty Python skit. I find it annoyingly predictable and somewhat patronizing to the reader.
- alimw 10y ago
  That's a bit vague. "Can be read in an exaggerated British accent" (whatever you're imagining there) is not an ideological position.
adrienne 10y ago
The Economist is a good review, but it's laughable that so many people think it answers for "not particularly ideological". Capitalism is an ideology - albeit one basically invisible to Hacker News members - and the Economist has that one in spades.
- B1FF_PSUVM 10y ago
  School of Agnelli and Rotschild (proprietors), the "dulce et decorum est pro libertate mori" sort. (This freedom stuff has to be dosed carefully: owners moving themselves or their stuff, fine and dandy. Cattle moving around unsupervised or mouthing off, not good.)
  - adrienne 10y ago
    Yup. And since most of the frequent contributors on HN think basically the same way, they don't even notice the ideological stance.

The Economist is a good weekly review; the stories are very short but the information density is high.

by copperx 10y ago

The Economist is a good weekly review; the stories are very short but the information density is high.

I'd also echo that The Economist is well worth a subscription. It also has the interesting quirk that doesn't use bylines and all articles are published anonymously.

nnvvhh 10y ago

+1 for the Economist. You get much more value than what you pay for an annual subscription. This week's edition has a letter to the editor from the president of Peru... It's that kind of publication.

sien 10y ago

That and listen to a short, quality news bulletin once a day like NPR or the BBC is all you want.

RachelF 10y ago

You'll battle to find a better source than The Economist. It is not as good as it was, as their editor was replaced last year.

narrator 10y ago

The problem I have with the economist is they mix opinion into almost everything they report. It's a very British aristocratic opinion. I can almost hear the exaggerated accent sometimes when reading it, like it's a Monty Python skit. I find it annoyingly predictable and somewhat patronizing to the reader.

alimw 10y ago
That's a bit vague. "Can be read in an exaggerated British accent" (whatever you're imagining there) is not an ideological position.

adrienne 10y ago

The Economist is a good review, but it's laughable that so many people think it answers for "not particularly ideological". Capitalism is an ideology - albeit one basically invisible to Hacker News members - and the Economist has that one in spades.

B1FF_PSUVM 10y ago
School of Agnelli and Rotschild (proprietors), the "dulce et decorum est pro libertate mori" sort. (This freedom stuff has to be dosed carefully: owners moving themselves or their stuff, fine and dandy. Cattle moving around unsupervised or mouthing off, not good.)
- adrienne 10y ago
  Yup. And since most of the frequent contributors on HN think basically the same way, they don't even notice the ideological stance.