A sign of the times?
From the story in AdAge (here):
“It continues to send reporters to overseas bureaus. It covers seething conflicts in places like Russia and Georgia before they become hot wars. It follows the trends that increasingly shape life in the U.S. before Americans declare them important.”
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It’s my favorite magazine to read. The stories are solid, well-researched, clearly written (but not dumbed down) and ahead of the news cycle. They had several articles about tension in South Ossetia weeks before Russia invaded Georgia. And The Economist doesn’t try to be everything to everyone like the other “news” magazines: no pop-stars on the cover, no buying guide for gadgets, no annual articles about the new breakthrough drugs for fill-in-the-blank disease.
There is a market for people who simply want news and analysis and The Economist capitalizes on it.
As a photographer, I’d like to see a better use of photos. But you can’t have everything.
It’s the only mag I can think-of, off hand, that holds ABSOLUTELY to Journalism.
Most of the North American periodicals, that I know-of, care more about the sensation they experience from their advertisers, and therefore about the mindless sensation they use to increase short-term sales, than about journalism.
Which is sad, but journalism’s a costly ( in human terms ) practice & commitment, not a get-rich-quick scheme, so there isn’t much money for honest-to-god versions of it.
I look forward to the day when the pseudo-journalists & pseudo-journalism are labeled correctly as “entertainment”, and the few who care, can proudly be seen to hold to making just society.
Hmph. It seems too many of the “journalist-types” I’ve encountered aren’t about fighting, front-line, for human rights & for heart worth. Instead the one’s I’ve met have almost invariably been about their extra rights ( private law = privilege ), and their right to rape the rights of others, for their sale/”story”.
I want to meet more of the honest-to-god ones.
the only magazine i’ll subscribe to, and have faithfully since I was 22. absolutely the best. Few magazines will dedicate so much space for in-depth surveys and large stories. Even this current edition, for example, has a 24 page special report on the US election (not to mention the weekly series of different swing states), by issue… with only 2 pages of ads in the entire special. Not even US magazines cover the US election that well. For their longer special reports, it’s obvious they give their writers the time they need to produce the best work… not many publications can boast that. Moreover, it’s never cluttered with so many ads.
Ok, the photography isn’t the best, but they do use photos in a witty way…. and their illustrations are top-shelf. Their quarterly magazine, Intelligent Life, which is wonderfully designed, runs large photo essays.
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