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post #46 of 57
3/4/10 at 10:11pm
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Originally Posted by marvin View Post
The WSJ's Opinion and Commentary page has always been political class conservative though. The decline has to do with the changes to the paper since Murdoch's acquistion of the WSJ in 2007. Main issue as I see it is that the ongoing transformation of the WSJ into a conservative mirror of the NYT has steadily been erasing the business focus that made it noteworthy in the first place.
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Agree with you on that one, which is too bad. It is still one of many sources I use, and that's the catch, never rely on one single source...... The Economist is hard to beat though....
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post #47 of 57
3/5/10 at 7:10pm
i like the economist for their global coverage. the other mags are like soccer mom reading to me.

i only spent 2500 airline miles for the year subscription. i would like to get them on my kindle but the subscription price (15$/month for electronic distribution!) is a little hard to justify
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post #48 of 57
3/5/10 at 9:00pm
The economist hands down.

While there is a definitive focus on the US and in second place to the UK, it has a decent coverage of international news. If you find that you have more time to allow to reading news then you may want something more specialized, but as a one-stop shop it is the unbeatable weekly news source.
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post #49 of 57
3/5/10 at 9:07pm
Economist
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post #50 of 57
3/6/10 at 5:28am
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Originally Posted by VicAjax View Post
all those magazines are fantastic, but only one is a weekly, and none are newsweeklies.
Curiously, The Economist thinks of itself as a newspaper. Their journalists are paid well over $100K annually but forgo a byline, there's a reason why the quality is better.

Time and Newsweek are nowhere in the same league, and not worth the paper they are printed on (Newsweek has adopted a strategy of going upmarket to compete with The Economist, but it's not there yet, and unlikely ever to as it bleeding red ink).
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post #51 of 57
3/6/10 at 6:12am
I also would pick The Economist. It is always a more substantial periodical than the other two, which have been trending "news-lite" recently. And they've been getting thinner with each passing year.

I judge news by the amount of celebrity coverage. The fewer celebs, the more I respect it as a source.
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post #52 of 57
3/6/10 at 10:39am
Am currently subscribed to the Economist.
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post #53 of 57
3/7/10 at 12:05am
Economist subscriber. ex-Time subscriber.
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post #54 of 57
11/19/10 at 11:27am

Don't you think The Economist could be better because is from UK? I'm not saying that is better because it is English. I mean that the articles are more international hence less influenced by USA policy.

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post #55 of 57
11/19/10 at 1:44pm

http://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/5576034959228928

 

Economist native app out for iPad (and iPhone), finally. Gave it a trial run - terrific first impressions.

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post #56 of 57
11/19/10 at 2:55pm

Currently reading this week's issue ( The economist)  on the touch 4G and am very happy with this app.

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post #57 of 57
11/20/10 at 7:50pm


 

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Originally Posted by VicAjax View Post

Seed or Discover are better science mags than New Scientist. the latter gets sensationalistic in its effort to grab readers.


I hope Seed's print magazine is far better than their site, because their site's content is... eh....

 

I'm more familiar with Time and Newsweek than The Economist, but I can tell you right now that Newsweek is terrible (some of their articles have been so horrid and sensationalist that I've torn them out of the magazine in frustration... oops) and Time has way too much pop culture stuff. The Economist has way more grit than both combined.

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