Jim F.
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 13:12:34 -0500 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
writes:
> Jeet Heer wrote:
>
> >Interesting. Why do you think the Economist sucks? It has a
> reputation,
> >like the Wall Street Journal's news section, for being a great
> publication
> >that reports honestly on how capitalism really works. Is this
> over-inflated?
> >I've personally never found it to be that great, and am curious why
> it
> >enjoys its high repute.
>
> I find that if I read the papers during the week - the NYT, WSJ, and
>
> FT, to name names - there's little new in the Economist. Sure they
> do
> something useful and interesting now and then, but mostly it strikes
>
> me as just a lot of attitude. A letter writer once described the mag
>
> (which calls itself a newspaper, for some reason) as offering
> tomorrow's conventional wisdom today, but I think even that's too
> generous.
>
> James Fallows had a very nice piece on the Washington Post a few
> years ago on the American cult of The Economist - it appealed to
> insecure Americans who just loved that dose of English snobbery and
> know-it-all-ism. Yawn.
>
> Doug
>
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