A lot of people like The Economist...if you too, please dont read further...I once liked it , I bought it for many years but then I dumped it like TIMES NOW one fine day......The mission of a respectable periodical, as Bagehot sees it, is to make its readers feel at home. At the Economist, he tells us: Our typical reader is a businessman, banker or trader, who prefers statistics to abstractions and has little patience for padding. He is generally cool, with his own business to attend to, and has a set of ordinary opinions arising from and suited to ordinary life. He does not desire an article that is too profound, but one which he can lay down and say ‘an excellent article, very excellent, exactly my own sentiments’. On such first-rate principles the Economist has been conducted ever since, although few of Bagehot’s successors as editor have stated them so frankly......
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 06:54:57 +0000
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