[lbo-talk] The Economist

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>New York Observer - March 19, 2007
><http://www.observer.com/
>20070319/20070319_Tom_Scocca_media_offtherecord.asp>
>
>The Economist: Everyone Copies It,
>But Does Anyone Translate It?
>By Tom Scocca
>
>... in 1991, ... a piece by James
>Fallows in The Washington Post ... "The Economics of
>Colonial Cringe," ... was a comprehensive indictment of The
>Economist as a pseudo-intellectual con job, based on "Anglophilic
>snobbery and Oxbridge-style swagger."

As an inexhaustible source of pretentious twaddle, the Economist is rivaled 
only by the Financial Times -- a publication that is arguably even more 
irritating than the Economist because of its show-offish salmon-colored 
stock.  The Economist and FT stand as prime examples of Britain's sad, 
lingering megalomania, since both publications contrive to give the 
impression that the UK is still running a sunset-proof empire -- not a 
shabby museum of Industrial Revolution technology burdened with an oversized 
military establishment, irrelevant to world events and peripheral even to 
European affairs.

Carl

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