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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.

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.