Wednesday, October 01, 2003
Why I love the Economist
Great analysis. Great covers. Great cartoons. Great special reports. Great data. Charming conservative bias. What really swings it for me though is that truly biting, vicious, poker-faced, British/Commonwealth sense of humour, sadly missing in almost every other mainstream magazine I know of. Consider these two examples from a recent issue.
From the story on Galileo -- After a shaky start, the craft has been one of NASA's most successful enterprises, and an example of what America's space agency does best—pushing back the frontiers of understanding, both literally and metaphorically, rather than keeping underemployed astronauts in low Earth orbit, and occasionally killing them.
From the story on London -- IN HIS career, Sir Howard Davies has been, inter alia, deputy governor of the Bank of England, boss of the Confederation of British Industry, and a consultant at McKinsey, a management consultancy that is highly regarded by those who work for it.
From the story on Galileo -- After a shaky start, the craft has been one of NASA's most successful enterprises, and an example of what America's space agency does best—pushing back the frontiers of understanding, both literally and metaphorically, rather than keeping underemployed astronauts in low Earth orbit, and occasionally killing them.
From the story on London -- IN HIS career, Sir Howard Davies has been, inter alia, deputy governor of the Bank of England, boss of the Confederation of British Industry, and a consultant at McKinsey, a management consultancy that is highly regarded by those who work for it.
