| ▲ | ggm 4 hours ago |
| I'd love to know if "the pink" has the same problem because I used to find the editorial very good. As a non-investor, left leaning voter, it interested me that I found much to agree with in "the financial times" while still finding much to disagree with in "the times" and "the daily telegraph" and "the spectator" -as if money was more neutrally stanced on left-vs-right. |
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| ▲ | gumby 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| If you’re a left leaning voter the Speccie is almost _never_ going to have an article for you. And the “almost” is simply because often the articles are very well written and a pleasure to read even when the actual topic and argument are deeply deranged. Amazingly this was especially true when Boris was the editor! |
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| ▲ | skrebbel 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Why is that amazing? For all his faults, Boris Johnson is an excellent writer. | | |
| ▲ | ggm an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | There is an amazing write up[0] of somebody who was present when Boris gave some apparently "impromptu" speeches who absolutely pins him to the ground on his technique for appearing haphazard, off-the-cuff when it's patently clear its a rehearsed schtick. The man is literate. The problem is he is also almost amoral, and should never have been allowed to occupy a position of authority. He has some charming qualities, and he has some deeply unpleasant ones. (at least, from what I know of him from reading online, having never met him in the flesh) [0]: "My Boris Johnson Story" by Jeremy Vine: https://spectator.com/article/my-boris-johnson-story/ | | |
| ▲ | mdp2021 39 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | > literate There is form and there is content. Poor content is more dangerous with alluring form. Some declared having witnessed a bewildering scientific ignorance ("He can't understand data representations"). | |
| ▲ | gherkinnn 27 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | What a thrilling read! |
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| ▲ | ifwinterco an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Truth is reading any of these MSM sources on either left or right is bad imo. Before reading them you're merely uninformed, after you're misinformed which is far worse |
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| ▲ | carabiner 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Chomsky said it was the only newspaper that told the truth. |
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| ▲ | jdhendrickson an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | I wonder if he wrote that while on the island. | | | |
| ▲ | michaelmrose an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Human beings act as if wisdom and intelligence are general whereas in reality every single area of human endeavor requires so much detail passion and time to acquire the specific knowledge and to maintain currency as the field evolves that those speaking outside their own specific scope are mostly full of shit. | |
| ▲ | tjwebbnorfolk an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Chomsky is a perfect example of an academic that should never have strayed outside the academy. Everything he's done outside of his narrow field of linguistics has been an embarrassment. | | |
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| ▲ | SanjayMehta 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Yes. The pink is also wrong more often than not when they're talking about non-European issues. When they talk about Europe they lie. Subtle difference. |
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| ▲ | ggm 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The view amongst the economically literate left (the LSE?) when I was in the UK, was that lying about money to money-makers was counter productive. I tend to think this is true. The economist doesn't project into quite the same mindset of outcome, so I still think (despite your polemic) it's less likely the fin randomly lies about things, but I'm prepared to consider it on it's merits if somebody gives me better reasons than what I am afraid is just .. ranting. | | |
| ▲ | ahartmetz 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Chomsky makes the same point in his book "Manufacturing Consent": Economic papers report more truthfully than most because the truth is what their readers need to make decisions in the real world. I find that pretty convincing and I do check out such papers occasionally for that reason. | | |
| ▲ | eru an hour ago | parent [-] | | It's somewhat funny that the rest of Chomsky's ideology doesn't seem to really take that insight serious. |
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| ▲ | spikels an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Today both "newspapers" lie about everything. Sad. |
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