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July 07, 2005
The world's best newspaper
You're likely to be surprised by the results of a Swiss survey which rated the world's best newspapers. Would you believe No. 1 is the Financial Times? And No. 2 is the Wall Street Journal! That might be a bit of a clue as to what we value most these days.
What's also interesting is that The Times of London isn't even in the top 10. Just shows what Rupert Murdoch can do for a [once] great newspaper.
Bleeding Edge's personal favourites are The Guardian, the Financial Times and the New York Times. Other publications we pay for: New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, The Spectator, and The Economist. And a friend suggested last night we should try out The Week, which might fill the gap we've noticed since The Reader was sadly axed.
Posted by cw at July 7, 2005 11:12 AM
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Stupid question? Who is the we you talk about? All the posts I have seen are by cw (Charles Wright). Do you mean the royal we? And if you do, does that make you a queen?
Just curious.
Molly
Posted by: Phillip Molly Malone at July 7, 2005 12:46 PM
ooops..what a boo-boo....
The FT and the WSJ should not have got a guernsey at all...they are not newspapers! they are financial magazines and contain no real news, only details of historical and possible upcoming financial/economic events....
so who cares ;)
Posted by: Ian Smith at July 7, 2005 02:55 PM
I think you'll find that The Reader is not available in a hard copy anymore, but it is still e-mailed to Crikey Subscribers. So you can either get a Crikey subscription, or make friends with someone who does...
Posted by: Illusionarylunch at July 7, 2005 05:00 PM
apologies for entering here far, far too late, but a hearty vote of support for the # 1 choice, the FT.
understandably, there is a perception that the 'paper cater solely for the financial market. the weekend edition, however, features some of the best journalism i have yet to see collected under one roof on one day.
what an odd beast it is though - almost impossible to find outside of european hotel lobbies, and seemingly happy to be eroneously consider a finance 'paper alone.
Posted by: via collins at July 19, 2005 02:23 PM