From: "L. McCarthy" <lmccarth@ducie.cs.umass.edu>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 95 00:59:11 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: C'punks Economist Fan Club
Message-ID: <199501050904.EAA09785@bb.hks.net>
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> Why is it that so many cypherpunks like the economist?

The Economist is my favorite magazine (my parents' too). I don't read it
regularly, but that has more to do with my being busy than anything else.

It succeeds in providing fairly balanced in-depth coverage of international 
news that isn't terribly Amerocentric or Anglocentric. At worst it's 
G7-centric, but I think that's entirely reasonable ;)  It's witty, politically
aware, relatively technically savvy. The articles exhibit a healthy (IMHO)
cynicism about what happens and why, yet maintain some idealism about what
should happen. It's not perfect, but it's difficult to imagine surpassing it.

I recently read an interview with Bill Gates in which he was asked which
periodicals he reads. His first response was: "The Economist, every page".

 -L. Futplex McCarthy; PGP key by finger or server   "The objective is for us 
  to get those conversations whether they're by an alligator clip or ones and 
  zeroes. Wherever they are, whatever they are, I need them." -FBI Dir. Freeh

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