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I still find the economist good. Its not cheap, but it always had interesting take on news from around the world. For TV news I've started to stream DW (Germa

• 1cvmask 5y ago
  The Economist has been caught many times for flawed bias. It is a mouthpiece of the national security state. Just look at how they called the US orchestrated coup d'etat of the majority vote winning non-white indigenous Evo Morales in Bolivia, replacing him with a white supremacist minority party of 5% votes, saying that he fled the country! Almost all the other western publications produced the same fake news initially. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/18/silence-us-backed-coup-evo-morales-bolivia-american-states https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/18/silenc...
  • robtherobber 5y ago
    Your comment reminded me of this article in the Prospect Magazine: https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/what-the-economist-doesnt-tell-you-liberal-democracy-populism-review https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/what-the-economi... "The Economist was founded by the liberal Scottish banker James Wilson as a mouthpiece of the movement for free trade. This was originally a broad church stretching from radicals like Richard Cobden and John Bright to the cotton interests of Manchester. But that coalition frayed as Wilson opposed assistance to Ireland during the famine and backed the authoritarian usurper Napoleon III following the 1848 revolution in France. By the 1850s, Wilson was doing battle with his erstwhile friends over his support for a war against Russia in the Crimea. This started a tradition. As one outspoken foreign editor remarked at his retirement from the newspaper, the Economist has yet to see a war it does not like. Again and again, spreading and defending the benefits of western liberalism has offered justification for imperial adventure."
    • 1cvmask 5y ago
      I met a number of their journalists over the years including a professor who had wrote for them at one point (he was an Oxford PPE graduate although I am not sure if it was Magdalen college) and saw how the sausage was made first hand and how selective they were with the truth if it didn't fit their narrative. But that it is the case with all media. Read lots from different sources (e.g. western and non-western sources) and never forget the Gell-Man amnesia effect (pun not intended).
      • acomjean 5y ago
        Thanks everyone for the comments. I always try to read with a little skepticism and I've always found their perspective.. a bit different. But I'll be more cautious now. For me it was covering things you don't see at all in the US papers. I had to look up the "gell-man amnesia effect): https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2021/01/18/gell-mann-amnesia/ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2021/01/18/gell-mann-amnesia/
        • 1cvmask 5y ago
          Naming is clearly a form of branding. Thanks for that link at the bottom. There is a gem there on why Michael Crichton called it the Gell-Mann amnesia effect: By the way, why is the effect named after the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann? Crichton explained I refer to it by this name because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have. - It reminds me of why von Neumann told Shannon to call it entropy: When Shannon first derived his famous formula for information, he asked von Neumann what he should call it and von Neumann replied “You should call it entropy for two reasons: first because that is what the formula is in statistical mechanises but second and more important, as nobody knows what entropy is, whenever you use the term you will always be at an advantage! http://www.spatialcomplexity.info/what-von-neumann-said-to-shannon/ http://www.spatialcomplexity.info/what-von-neumann-said-to-s...