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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to The Economist?

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Post by toyg »

donpott wrote: post #53

Maybe Foreign Policy? Can't say I've read any issues in the past few years, but back when I last read it, it appeared to fit your requisites reasonably well (perhaps a bit too US-centric for your liking). This chart shows FP as a more factual, slightly closer to the Center than The Economist (EDIT: Wrong) https://www.datawrapper.de/_/rrzFK/ Source for the chart: https://www.thefactual.com/blog/is-foreign-policy-magaz…

> slightly closer to the Center than The Economist.

The center of US political debate is significantly to the right of Europe on a large set of topics (from the role of the State in economic matters to global issues like Israel's behaviour).

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to The Economist?

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Post by toyg »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #51
mellosouls wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, Private Eye pretty much the only essential publication in the UK for me.

Satire and comedy panel shows (HIGNFY, Mock the Week, Daily Mash, etc.) have been a major source of news and debate for me over the last decade or so. The BBC appear to be reflecting this by cancelling all news related comedy shows on TV -- presumably following pressure from the Tory government? The BBC also appear to have put a month-delay on podcasts which prevents them from helping u inform opinions on recent news…

I believe the podcast delay is just for independent clients - you can still get stuff on they day if you use the BBC Sounds app. It's just a ploy to get more people on their app.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to The Economist?

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Post by toyg »

uncletammy wrote: post #60
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Satire and comedy panel shows (HIGNFY, Mock the Week, Daily Mash, etc.) have been a major source of news and debate for me over the last decade or so. The BBC appear to be reflecting this by cancelling all news related comedy shows on TV -- presumably following pressure from the Tory government? The BBC also appear to have put a month-delay on podcasts which prevents them from helping u inform opinions on recent news…

> The BBC also appear to have put a month-delay on podcasts which prevents them from helping u inform opinions on recent news. Through what mechanism is the BBC able to delay podcasts?

They make it available only on their app for a month, then publish it for everyone. It's just a commercial choice to capture more listeners for their apps.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to The Economist?

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Post by tibbetts »

abm53 wrote: post #43
corbet wrote: post #31

I bailed on the Economist a couple of years ago after at least a couple decades...thought I was the only one who felt it had declined. I haven't really found a good replacement still. If nothing else, the pain they put me through to end the subscription was enough to prevent me from ever signing up again.

Their “customer retention” process is extremely aggressive, even by most traditional print publications’ standards.

I canceled recently and had to escalate to “I have told you to cancel three times and if you cannot cancel now I will have to dispute the charges with my credit card company.”

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to The Economist?

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Post by MrBuddyCasino »

jakozaur wrote: post #22

I am long-time fun of Economist, but unfortunately the quality decreases. E.g. last issue EU is frozen and claim so many people will die in Europe due to high energy prices. First, I find they did not explain their model well. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Second, the correlation does not imply causation or whether extrapolations are solid. It looks like there might be mistakes on that front an…

Interesting, on Twitter Noah Smith has become a laughing stock.

I will say that generally, non-print media like Substack, personal blogs and Twitter can be a much higher quality replacement. Requires a little digging though.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to The Economist?

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Post by nitin-pai »

The alternative to The Economist is a well curated collection of RSS feeds. Identify a set of intelligent blogs/columnists who post regularly, put their feeds into an OPML file, and you have a great alternative.

Added bonus: you can have X and anti-X perspectives for most values of X.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to The Economist?

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Post by Aromasin »

jimbobthemighty wrote: post #46

Have a look at: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome Any page that needs to be bypassed is worthy of a glance; limiting yourself to just one source runs the risk of 'rose tinted glasses' syndrome.

Excellent, thanks for this. If I had the funds, I'd read everything from Adweek to Zeit Online, but paywalls mean I can only pick one or two.
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