<story><title>For Two Months, I Got My News from Print Newspapers</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/technology/two-months-news-newspapers.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bryananderson</author><text>What would you recommend as a good complement to The Economist?</text></item><item><author>detritus</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a big fan of The Economist and have bought and&amp;#x2F;or subscribed to it pretty much continuously for almost twenty years now (young old man that i am), but unless you&amp;#x27;re entirely beholden to its agenda, which I find very un-self-questioning - I&amp;#x27;d suggest you offset its perspective with a &amp;#x27;complementary adversarial&amp;#x27; weekly.&lt;p&gt;Last time I swore off excess media consumption (about a decade ago) I kept on with The Economist and found I was &amp;#x27;drinking the Kool Aid&amp;#x27; after a while.</text></item><item><author>nindalf</author><text>Eliminating notification spam sounds great and reading daily newspapers sounds great, but I&amp;#x27;ve tried another variant of this with some success. Reading just the weekly version of the Economist left me vast amounts of free time and I didn&amp;#x27;t feel any less informed than when I was reading several sources over the course of a day.&lt;p&gt;Of course, that&amp;#x27;s my own estimation of how well informed I was, so that might be far from accurate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dredmorbius</author><text>Good question.&lt;p&gt;I conducted a study of the relative mentions of an arbitrarily selected set of high-informational indicators (the &lt;i&gt;Foreign Policy&lt;/i&gt; list of top 100 global thinkers), and looked for references to those amongst numerous online domains (and TLDs), including several mainstream and alternative media sources.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;dredmorbius&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;3hp41w&amp;#x2F;tracking_the_conversation_fp_global_100_thinkers&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;dredmorbius&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;3hp41w&amp;#x2F;trackin...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Scroll down past the social media listing.)&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Economist&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;The Financial Times&lt;/i&gt; both rate excellently amongst mainstream publications.  Each has a very distinct pro-business, pro-banking, and overt pro-free-trade[1] agenda (though not unquestioningly so), though the quality is generally good.&lt;p&gt;Amongst the more highly-rating alternatives were (in no particular order):&lt;p&gt;1. Mother Jones&lt;p&gt;2. The Christian Science Monitor&lt;p&gt;3. The Nation&lt;p&gt;4. Jacobin Magazine.  (Probably the most directly ideologically opposed publication.)&lt;p&gt;5. Alternet, The Real News, and Truthdig, each of which has a diverse though sometimes questionable set of contributors.&lt;p&gt;Selecting from amongst these might be useful.&lt;p&gt;My survey, of about 100 distinct domains, is not complete and has various methodological issues, but should be a good guide.&lt;p&gt;________________________________&lt;p&gt;Notes:&lt;p&gt;1. See &lt;i&gt;The Economist&amp;#x27;s&lt;/i&gt; own Prospectus:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;THE ECONOMIST, which will contain — First.—ORIGINAL LEADING ARTICLES, in which free-trade principles will be most rigidly applied to all the important questions of the day....&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.economist.com&amp;#x2F;node&amp;#x2F;1873493&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.economist.com&amp;#x2F;node&amp;#x2F;1873493&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>For Two Months, I Got My News from Print Newspapers</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/technology/two-months-news-newspapers.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bryananderson</author><text>What would you recommend as a good complement to The Economist?</text></item><item><author>detritus</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a big fan of The Economist and have bought and&amp;#x2F;or subscribed to it pretty much continuously for almost twenty years now (young old man that i am), but unless you&amp;#x27;re entirely beholden to its agenda, which I find very un-self-questioning - I&amp;#x27;d suggest you offset its perspective with a &amp;#x27;complementary adversarial&amp;#x27; weekly.&lt;p&gt;Last time I swore off excess media consumption (about a decade ago) I kept on with The Economist and found I was &amp;#x27;drinking the Kool Aid&amp;#x27; after a while.</text></item><item><author>nindalf</author><text>Eliminating notification spam sounds great and reading daily newspapers sounds great, but I&amp;#x27;ve tried another variant of this with some success. Reading just the weekly version of the Economist left me vast amounts of free time and I didn&amp;#x27;t feel any less informed than when I was reading several sources over the course of a day.&lt;p&gt;Of course, that&amp;#x27;s my own estimation of how well informed I was, so that might be far from accurate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>detritus</author><text>To be honest, I&amp;#x27;m not sure of a competing one-stop shop - I certainly didn&amp;#x27;t know when I last fasted from media.&lt;p&gt;These days I do a daily scan of all the none-too-tabloidy newspapers (UK-based here), and on a weekly-or-so basis take in the likes of The Spectator, National Review and Foreign Affairs.&lt;p&gt;- edit:&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not going to lie - I could probably do with another breather - I&amp;#x27;m unsure how much value I get from scouring all this crap.</text></comment>