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The economist is publishing articles blaming 'the greenies' for your car failing by banning toxic metals in your oil. It's a standard economist article - they

The economist is publishing articles blaming 'the greenies' for your car failing by banning toxic metals in your oil. It's a standard economist article - they are basically just fox news with a higher reading age.

CaptainZapp 16y ago
"It's a standard economist article - they are basically just fox news with a higher reading age." Are you implying that the Economist is a right wing propaganda rag? Actually it's an economically very liberal magazine and _extremely_ liberal on social issues. And for hating greens? They published a special report on forests a couple weeks ago, which could have come straight from the WWF. It seems you're quite prejudiced here, without really being informed.
bjelkeman-again 16y ago
The Economist is certainly not "Fox News with a higher reading age". Name me one other publication covering: business and politics. They have decent quarterly summary supplements on technology and good weekly science sections. They have a bias in both their writing and their world view, but so does any publication, including HN. As long as you understand the bias then you shouldn't be led astray too far. There are of course articles which don't reach their average quality, but the quality is generally quite high. Higher than any other news and analysis publication I know of which is published every week. Edit: grammar
- bryanlarsen 16y ago
  And they don't pretend they have don't a bias. They often express an opinion, but its always clear that it's an opinion. "Balanced" reporting has never existed, but the crazy practice of pretending it does is disappearing in this age of Fox news and the internet. (Is this the only good thing that's come out of Fox news?)
- CaptainZapp 16y ago
  Add to that that it's one of the rare publications willing to admit mistakes in judgment One of the more recent examples is the Iraq war, which they supported. They don't deny that they did that, but think it was a mistake in hindsight. Note that this is quite different then hanging the flag into the direction of the wind of public opinion. Opinion journalism? Hell yes, and they'd probably be the first to admit this. There are areas where I very much disagree with their opinion. This is not only to be expected, but it's actually quite rewarding for the reader. See, reading a well reasoned and researched opinion, which differs fundamentally from my own, actually makes me think through such reasoning and it helps to achieve a world view, which has far more shades of gray then black & white. [edited, typo]

CaptainZapp 16y ago

"It's a standard economist article - they are basically just fox news with a higher reading age." Are you implying that the Economist is a right wing propaganda rag? Actually it's an economically very liberal magazine and _extremely_ liberal on social issues. And for hating greens? They published a special report on forests a couple weeks ago, which could have come straight from the WWF. It seems you're quite prejudiced here, without really being informed.

bjelkeman-again 16y ago

The Economist is certainly not "Fox News with a higher reading age". Name me one other publication covering: business and politics. They have decent quarterly summary supplements on technology and good weekly science sections. They have a bias in both their writing and their world view, but so does any publication, including HN. As long as you understand the bias then you shouldn't be led astray too far. There are of course articles which don't reach their average quality, but the quality is generally quite high. Higher than any other news and analysis publication I know of which is published every week. Edit: grammar

bryanlarsen 16y ago
And they don't pretend they have don't a bias. They often express an opinion, but its always clear that it's an opinion. "Balanced" reporting has never existed, but the crazy practice of pretending it does is disappearing in this age of Fox news and the internet. (Is this the only good thing that's come out of Fox news?)
CaptainZapp 16y ago
Add to that that it's one of the rare publications willing to admit mistakes in judgment One of the more recent examples is the Iraq war, which they supported. They don't deny that they did that, but think it was a mistake in hindsight. Note that this is quite different then hanging the flag into the direction of the wind of public opinion. Opinion journalism? Hell yes, and they'd probably be the first to admit this. There are areas where I very much disagree with their opinion. This is not only to be expected, but it's actually quite rewarding for the reader. See, reading a well reasoned and researched opinion, which differs fundamentally from my own, actually makes me think through such reasoning and it helps to achieve a world view, which has far more shades of gray then black & white. [edited, typo]