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Can't speak for The Atlantic, but I think The Economist qualifies as "high-brow" and pretty dang information-dense. Just reading and remembering like 30% of the
by majos 8y ago
Can't speak for The Atlantic, but I think The Economist qualifies as "high-brow" and pretty dang information-dense. Just reading and remembering like 30% of the articles gets me far.
At this point I just read the weekly (print) issue and only go deeper on things that interest me. I am of course missing things, but it's been much less stressful and more informative than skimming the NYT every morning.
- martinpw 8y agoAnother benefit to reading a weekly news source versus a daily is that the average quality is higher, since the most important N stories in a week are going to be a better overall sample than the most important N/7 stories each day integrated over the same week. The Economist also has great round-the-world coverage, which is more than can be said for most news sources.
- FabHK 8y agoCouldn’t agree more. Read books and The Economist, skip the dailies.
- detuur 8y agoThe Economist is definitely a high-brow, low-fluff, high-density publication. I love it. Articles are usually short enough that you can get through them in a just a minute and they have a good graphics department that makes clear, readable graphs that actually provide an added value instead of filling in some empty space. Shows that it is possible to stick to the message. For political reporting it seems like Politico is sticking to the same formula (at least Politico.eu), which explains their popularity.
- ivm 8y agoTheir writing style is also great, it feels very British: slightly sarcastic and with lots of clever puns.