On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Nathan Newman wrote:
> So write me up for the cult of the Economist. And I know a heck of a
> lot of other lefties who have signed up as well.
I used to belong to that cult. But try the FT for one week and you'll see it satisfies the same hunger only much more deeply. It's like the Economist on the installment plan, only better written and more open minded. And I say this as a man who admired the writing in the Economist for 20 years. Now all I miss is the photo captions.
Click on the FT website and they'll give you four weeks free. You've got nothing to lose. You'll probably have the same experience I did. I read only the first section every day for a week. Then my Economist arrived, and I opened it with anticipation and . . . there was nothing there for me. It was like reading the NYT Week in Review if you'd read every article in the daily paper.
The key, though, IMHO is to really treat it like a magazine on the installment plan and only read it when you're in the mood and catch up on Sundays. And use electron media for headlines.
Michael