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Hydroceph
12/23/08

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I only fly business class, too, which for some reason my husband won't pay for. As a result, i never go anywhere.
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ifstone
12/23/08

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"the Economist, which contains as much viewpoint as news"

That's a dilettante's understanding. The Economist runs "leaders" (editorials) at the front of the magazine, and articles do posit points of view but this is more a stylistic device than editorializing and it's a welcome contrast to dull and phony "balance" of, say, the typical NY Times piece. (Is it just me or is the Times deliberately boring?)

More to the point of this post would be the arrogance that colors a lot of the Economist, and this is apparent in the Economist alums like Elliott who move on to prominent jobs in American media. Clive Crook writes for the Atlantic Monthly and he does have a bit of British schoolboy arrogance.
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Hydroceph
12/23/08

@ifstone: And yet somehow The Economist manages to convey actual news, despite its explicit leaders, whereas too many other media outlets are just that--outlets for some corporate master or other.
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ifstone
12/23/08

@Hydroceph: Yes, and compared to the Economist, magazines like Time and Newsweek are like TV news. But that makes Elliott's migration even more dubious.
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MrInBetween
12/23/08

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I know some mountain goats that could bamboozle John Huey.
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ShridulaTheia
12/23/08

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Mike Elliott is an asshole. I was gonna say douche but you've retired the word. I used to work for him at Newsweek International. He wouldn't give me a raise on 22K a year (this was 1997, but still!), and amount that wouldn't have kept him in lunch. He was in perpetual midlife crisis and used to ask all the hot chicks to come in on Sundays when the office would be dead empty. He drove out all the crusty old correspondents who actually knew something about, say, the middle east because they made him feel old. Then replaced them with these idiot 25-year-old Brits who wrote about trends in Japanese underwear or whatever. By the time 9/11 rolled around he'd rid the magazine of its best and most serious correspondents.
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Hydroceph
12/23/08

@ShridulaTheia: the new word is perez, according to previous Gakwer offerings.
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