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Actually, The Economist is particularly bad for foreign reporting, because it is here that their fairly intelligent readers are most willing to trust them. Almo
by asdflkj 16y ago
Actually, The Economist is particularly bad for foreign reporting, because it is here that their fairly intelligent readers are most willing to trust them. Almost all other Anglophone news outlets don't even make a pretense of providing serious foreign reporting, which gives The Economist a sort of monopoly. Also, BS is harder to recognize when it has no implications for you or anyone you know.
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?Story_ID=1259408 http://www.economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?Story...
- jbooth 16y agoTrue, good points. In a lot of their foreign reporting you do see 2 sides to the story and it's less connected to any general ideological principles that the economist would be concerned with, so I guess I'm generally more impressed with it than the american/british/euro reporting. European stuff I just assume that they're biased and I don't know enough about the situation to pick up on it so I skim it and try not to draw conclusions.