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Subject: Re: RE: Good news sources - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 13-Nov-83 10:59:24 EST
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ucbesvax!turner    Nov 12 16:59:00 1983

Re: Larry Kolodney's recommendation of The Economist

I second that vote.  Time has great color pix, fer sure, but I hardly
ever come away from it persuaded of the necessity to think further.
(It usually takes me a day to clear that haze--or two minutes of reading
net.flame.)

The Economist is decidedly conservative, but is also prove positive to
Left Chauvinists that such tendencies do not preclude the virtues of
rigorous argument and self-examination.  Of course, Left Chauvinism
has never been very impressed by proof positive--some of those ravers
are busy denouncing the recent revelation of the nearly certain guilt
of Julius Rosenberg as being the work of heretics and liars.  Some
people never outgrow this sort of thing.

Another more enjoyable British mag with freqent political slanting is
New Scientist, a science-oriented weekly that bridges a gap in Britain
that is not crossed in the U.S.--the niche between the gross popularism
of Science '83 (to give one chilling example) and the somewhat weightier
(and less frequent) Scientific American.  The format and tone of New
Scientist reminds me of USENET at its best--breezy, informative, and
often controversial.

It was New Scientist, for example, that dared to publish Zhores Medvedev's
theories of the Urals nuclear waste-dump disaster, in which some hundreds
of square miles were rendered unfit for human habitation.  Needless to say,
this story did not sit well with the nuclear establishments of either the
Eastern Bloc or the Western nuclear nations.  And yet, New Scientist still
publishes pro-nuclear opinions by respected nuclear specialists--a recent
article promoting a new Australian-developed disposal method left me quite
impressed, in spite of myself.
---
Michael Turner (ucbvax!ucbesvax.turner)