Or, so I must deduce from the my favorite lefty, Mel-Anon's post today, based upon my subscription and weekly cover to cover reading of the Economist. I have spent most of my morning trying to figure out where this money may be found. I'm also enjoying the thought of my new found elite status.
Nichols at the Nation is using this endorsement to show the McCain/Palin socialist smear doesn't hold water. In making this point, he describes the Economist as "the journal of monied elites who prefer not to be lied to." I completely agree with the not being lied to portion, though once again I'm still trying to find my money and my elite status.
A newsmagazine that supports universal health care, gay marriage, significant investment in education, good governance and democracy... yeah, totally sounds like an elitist corporate shill to me...
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Admittedly, the Economist's politics are more complex than I've given them credit for, and of course I agree with their social liberal and pro-democracy advocacy. But I don't think there can be too much doubt about Nichols' and my characterization of who their primary constituency is. This doesn't encompass all of their subscribers, naturally. They apparently think I'd like to subscribe as well, given the number of mailers I get from them.
I do admit that the mailers are a bit over the top... though nothing to compare to American Express, which having one is apparently the number one predictive variable for the amount of money spent by their marketing department to recruit you. No wonder it costs $100 per year to subsribe (hey, wait is that where my monied class cash went?, Damn!).
I don't doubt that a good deal of the readership (or more likely, subscribers) are of the wealth holding class. I do, admittedly get frustrated with the fact that I know from reading this magazine that either a. many of the subscribers don't read the editorials, b. they disagree with them, or c. they agree with the socially liberal and democracy promotion, but chose to not mention such things in their day-to-day-well-to-do lives as societal leaders. This especially resonates with health care, whereby the Economist has been calling for the need for reform and universal coverage in America for at least three years (probably much longer), and yet, I would guess the publicly state opinions of the 700K subsribers would probably split 60/40 against such a policy... oh well.
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