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What would you recommend as a good complement to The Economist?

detritus 9y ago
To be honest, I'm not sure of a competing one-stop shop - I certainly didn't know when I last fasted from media. These days I do a daily scan of all the none-too-tabloidy newspapers (UK-based here), and on a weekly-or-so basis take in the likes of The Spectator, National Review and Foreign Affairs. - edit: I'm not going to lie - I could probably do with another breather - I'm unsure how much value I get from scouring all this crap.
smacktoward 9y ago
If you're looking for an explicitly adversarial complement, Jacobin might fit the bill: https://jacobinmag.com/ https://jacobinmag.com/ (Though it's quarterly rather than weekly, of course)
thinkingemote 9y ago
Newstatesman in the UK for a left wing weekly, politics centred periodical with minimal arts section and the book reviews are essentially ideological articles. the Spectator is more popular and a Tory/ right wing weekly with almost half of it devoted to culture, books, arts etc. I found the arts component of the Spectator to be relatively free of ideology. Recently I bought both and compared them. I found the writing quality in the newstatesman to be more variable, with a few Excellent and a few utterly awful articles. The Spectator is overall of good quality but nothing really stood out.
dredmorbius 9y ago
Good question. I conducted a study of the relative mentions of an arbitrarily selected set of high-informational indicators (the Foreign Policy list of top 100 global thinkers), and looked for references to those amongst numerous online domains (and TLDs), including several mainstream and alternative media sources. https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3hp41w/tracking_the_conversation_fp_global_100_thinkers/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3hp41w/trackin... (Scroll down past the social media listing.) The Economist and The Financial Times both rate excellently amongst mainstream publications. Each has a very distinct pro-business, pro-banking, and overt pro-free-trade[1] agenda (though not unquestioningly so), though the quality is generally good. Amongst the more highly-rating alternatives were (in no particular order): 1. Mother Jones 2. The Christian Science Monitor 3. The Nation 4. Jacobin Magazine. (Probably the most directly ideologically opposed publication.) 5. Alternet, The Real News, and Truthdig, each of which has a diverse though sometimes questionable set of contributors. Selecting from amongst these might be useful. My survey, of about 100 distinct domains, is not complete and has various methodological issues, but should be a good guide. ________________________________ Notes: 1. See The Economist's own Prospectus: THE ECONOMIST, which will contain — First.—ORIGINAL LEADING ARTICLES, in which free-trade principles will be most rigidly applied to all the important questions of the day.... https://www.economist.com/node/1873493 https://www.economist.com/node/1873493
baursak 9y ago
Not a print biweekly, but highly recommend http://fair.org/ http://fair.org/ as a complement to things like Economist or even NYT.

To be honest, I'm not sure of a competing one-stop shop - I certainly didn't know when I last fasted from media. These days I do a daily scan of all the none-too-tabloidy newspapers (UK-based here), and on a weekly-or-so basis take in the likes of The Spectator, National Review and Foreign Affairs. - edit: I'm not going to lie - I could probably do with another breather - I'm unsure how much value I get from scouring all this crap.

smacktoward 9y ago

If you're looking for an explicitly adversarial complement, Jacobin might fit the bill: https://jacobinmag.com/ https://jacobinmag.com/ (Though it's quarterly rather than weekly, of course)

thinkingemote 9y ago

Newstatesman in the UK for a left wing weekly, politics centred periodical with minimal arts section and the book reviews are essentially ideological articles. the Spectator is more popular and a Tory/ right wing weekly with almost half of it devoted to culture, books, arts etc. I found the arts component of the Spectator to be relatively free of ideology. Recently I bought both and compared them. I found the writing quality in the newstatesman to be more variable, with a few Excellent and a few utterly awful articles. The Spectator is overall of good quality but nothing really stood out.

dredmorbius 9y ago

Good question. I conducted a study of the relative mentions of an arbitrarily selected set of high-informational indicators (the Foreign Policy list of top 100 global thinkers), and looked for references to those amongst numerous online domains (and TLDs), including several mainstream and alternative media sources. https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3hp41w/tracking_the_conversation_fp_global_100_thinkers/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3hp41w/trackin... (Scroll down past the social media listing.) The Economist and The Financial Times both rate excellently amongst mainstream publications. Each has a very distinct pro-business, pro-banking, and overt pro-free-trade[1] agenda (though not unquestioningly so), though the quality is generally good. Amongst the more highly-rating alternatives were (in no particular order): 1. Mother Jones 2. The Christian Science Monitor 3. The Nation 4. Jacobin Magazine. (Probably the most directly ideologically opposed publication.) 5. Alternet, The Real News, and Truthdig, each of which has a diverse though sometimes questionable set of contributors. Selecting from amongst these might be useful. My survey, of about 100 distinct domains, is not complete and has various methodological issues, but should be a good guide. ________________________________ Notes: 1. See The Economist's own Prospectus: THE ECONOMIST, which will contain — First.—ORIGINAL LEADING ARTICLES, in which free-trade principles will be most rigidly applied to all the important questions of the day.... https://www.economist.com/node/1873493 https://www.economist.com/node/1873493

baursak 9y ago

Not a print biweekly, but highly recommend http://fair.org/ http://fair.org/ as a complement to things like Economist or even NYT.