[lbo-talk] Left alternative to The Economist? An Anti-Economist?

[ravi]

Charles Peterson wrote:
> Is there a left alternative to The Economist magazine?
>  And is there an Anti-Economist somewhere that debunks
> the outrageous spin, cherry picking, strawman
> constructing, and smug attitude dismissive of
> alternative points of view that characterize this
> small but highly influential rag that spreads the
> propaganda of neoliberalism throughout the liberal
> intelligentsia?  
> 
> Many of the most influential people "liberal" people I
> know brag about keeping up by reading The Economist,
> even if they'd never follow its voting
> recommendations.

I agree with your view of The Economist and its readership -- many of my
otherwise intelligent and left-leaning tech friends subscribe to the rag
(I am not sure how much of it they read) because of this strange
attraction it holds (perhaps there are Anglophilia issues here).

Though I do not know of any "left" alternative to the bloody thing,
believe it or not, I often suggest Business Week as a more intelligent
alternative to those who ask. Not only is most of the BW content better
thought out and reasoned, they exhibit more of a moral faculty (while
The Economist reads entirely like an organ).


>From my memory of an earlier post I made: the three magazines everyone
should subscribe to: Business Week, GQ, Frommer's Budget Travel. ;-)

	--ravi