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The Economist always comes up with good tag lines for stories. In this case: Linda Yaccarino goes from X CEO to ex-CEO. https://www.economist.com/business/202

The Economist always comes up with good tag lines for stories. In this case: Linda Yaccarino goes from X CEO to ex-CEO. https://www.economist.com/business/2025/07/09/linda-yaccarino-goes-from-x-ceo-to-ex-ceo https://www.economist.com/business/2025/07/09/linda-yaccarin...

blymphony 1y ago
What are other memorable tag lines from them?
- amy214 1y ago
  "Yaccarino got X-terminated like an old piece of peccorino"
- snorrah 1y ago
  I don't know, why don't you go have a look?
- zamadatix 1y ago
  I don't read the Economist much but I was curious as I'm always down for punny headlines, found this collection: https://www.ironicsans.com/2007/06/the_best_and_worst_of_the_econ.html https://www.ironicsans.com/2007/06/the_best_and_worst_of_the...
  - jaydenmilne 1y ago
    I’ve noticed that they have different, worse headlines in the digital edition and on the web. They seem more clickbaity. I just want to get on the record and say that whoever in the paper argues for and writes the fun headlines is on the right side of history
- DaiPlusPlus 1y ago
  Their "Resign, Rumsfeld" cover is etched into my memory.
- incogitomode 1y ago
  They got in trouble for this one, it's tasteless, but memorable: https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2009/05/20/uighur-please https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2009/05/20/ui...
  - qingcharles 1y ago
    That's so fucked up, but I laughed. I'm a bad person (｡•́︿•̀｡)
narism 1y ago
The cover art is good too. Some favorites: https://www.economist.com/img/b/400/527/90/sites/default/files/20100501issuecovUS400.jpg https://www.economist.com/img/b/400/527/90/sites/default/fil... https://www.economist.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=1424,quality=80,format=auto/sites/default/files/20091114issuecovUS400.jpg https://www.economist.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=1424,quality=8...
- spacechild1 1y ago
  The second one is hilarious!
lowsong 1y ago
Unfortunately the Economist has shifted from "center right" to "far right" over the past few years, along with a general decline in reporting quality.
- Cabal 1y ago
  Doesn't seem like it. From the Economist's front page as I type this: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/07/03/trumponomics-20-will-erode-the-foundations-of-americas-prosperity https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/07/03/trumponomics-20...
- shlant 1y ago
  any prominent examples of it being "far right"?
- dinkumthinkum 1y ago
  Is this actually serious? This is pretty unbelievable and I can only wonder if it is parody. However, I am also aware that some can be so far left that they they think other leftists or even far leftist are mad right wingers but that is a very delusional level of thinking. I don't see how even a plain reading of their article headlines could yield that conclusion.
  - lowsong 1y ago
    I appreciate that when you're on the extreme end of far-right anything less extreme looks like "leftist propaganda".
- chermi 1y ago
  Ok I guess we're just redefining things now. Btw, NYT is now far left. See how easy that is?
  - PaulHoule 1y ago
    People are crazy now. This supposedly reputable source https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart puts The New York Times opinion page in the same box as Jacobin which (1) I think is highly offensive to Jacobin and (2) doesn't seem consistent with a paper that (a) said it would never make endorsements in NYC politics and (b) reversed itself to make an anti-endorsement of Zohran Mandami (because it's just too cringe to endorse Cuomo or Adams) For that matter I'd put The Guardian and Mother Jones solidly left of The Atlantic. The New Yorker strikes me as being interested in "wokeist" issues but being not quite strident enough to be really "woke". I think this chart is defensible https://app.adfontesmedia.com/chart/interactive https://app.adfontesmedia.com/chart/interactive unlike that other one. So far as The Economist goes they really should be Center-Right in the sense that they were founded in 1843 to oppose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_Laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_Laws and have supported free trade consistently ever since and loved Maggie Thatcher but never got behind the Tory clown car of the last 20 years. They're also consistently trans-skeptical. The weirdest story now has to be The Bulwark which was founded by the people who brought you the Iraq war and torpedoed Clinton's health care plans but has to attract a left-leaning audience because there's no place for a principled conservative in 2025.

blymphony 1y ago

What are other memorable tag lines from them?

amy214 1y ago
"Yaccarino got X-terminated like an old piece of peccorino"
snorrah 1y ago
I don't know, why don't you go have a look?
zamadatix 1y ago
I don't read the Economist much but I was curious as I'm always down for punny headlines, found this collection: https://www.ironicsans.com/2007/06/the_best_and_worst_of_the_econ.html https://www.ironicsans.com/2007/06/the_best_and_worst_of_the...
- jaydenmilne 1y ago
  I’ve noticed that they have different, worse headlines in the digital edition and on the web. They seem more clickbaity. I just want to get on the record and say that whoever in the paper argues for and writes the fun headlines is on the right side of history
DaiPlusPlus 1y ago
Their "Resign, Rumsfeld" cover is etched into my memory.
incogitomode 1y ago
They got in trouble for this one, it's tasteless, but memorable: https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2009/05/20/uighur-please https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2009/05/20/ui...
- qingcharles 1y ago
  That's so fucked up, but I laughed. I'm a bad person (｡•́︿•̀｡)

narism 1y ago

The cover art is good too. Some favorites: https://www.economist.com/img/b/400/527/90/sites/default/files/20100501issuecovUS400.jpg https://www.economist.com/img/b/400/527/90/sites/default/fil... https://www.economist.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=1424,quality=80,format=auto/sites/default/files/20091114issuecovUS400.jpg https://www.economist.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=1424,quality=8...

spacechild1 1y ago
The second one is hilarious!

lowsong 1y ago

Unfortunately the Economist has shifted from "center right" to "far right" over the past few years, along with a general decline in reporting quality.

Cabal 1y ago
Doesn't seem like it. From the Economist's front page as I type this: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/07/03/trumponomics-20-will-erode-the-foundations-of-americas-prosperity https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/07/03/trumponomics-20...
shlant 1y ago
any prominent examples of it being "far right"?
dinkumthinkum 1y ago
Is this actually serious? This is pretty unbelievable and I can only wonder if it is parody. However, I am also aware that some can be so far left that they they think other leftists or even far leftist are mad right wingers but that is a very delusional level of thinking. I don't see how even a plain reading of their article headlines could yield that conclusion.
- lowsong 1y ago
  I appreciate that when you're on the extreme end of far-right anything less extreme looks like "leftist propaganda".
chermi 1y ago
Ok I guess we're just redefining things now. Btw, NYT is now far left. See how easy that is?
- PaulHoule 1y ago
  People are crazy now. This supposedly reputable source https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart puts The New York Times opinion page in the same box as Jacobin which (1) I think is highly offensive to Jacobin and (2) doesn't seem consistent with a paper that (a) said it would never make endorsements in NYC politics and (b) reversed itself to make an anti-endorsement of Zohran Mandami (because it's just too cringe to endorse Cuomo or Adams) For that matter I'd put The Guardian and Mother Jones solidly left of The Atlantic. The New Yorker strikes me as being interested in "wokeist" issues but being not quite strident enough to be really "woke". I think this chart is defensible https://app.adfontesmedia.com/chart/interactive https://app.adfontesmedia.com/chart/interactive unlike that other one. So far as The Economist goes they really should be Center-Right in the sense that they were founded in 1843 to oppose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_Laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_Laws and have supported free trade consistently ever since and loved Maggie Thatcher but never got behind the Tory clown car of the last 20 years. They're also consistently trans-skeptical. The weirdest story now has to be The Bulwark which was founded by the people who brought you the Iraq war and torpedoed Clinton's health care plans but has to attract a left-leaning audience because there's no place for a principled conservative in 2025.