Economist hit on Naomi Klein

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 8 13:01:25 PST 2002



> >
> > 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.

Yah, and? Does that mean that it isn't good if you don't.


> >
> > 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.
>

No doubt. Though I sorta like the irreverence, as opposed to the stuffy seriousness of AMerican journalism. But then I have a snobby English education (in part).

jks, Cambs (Kings) *82.

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