The place where I moved receives the financial times everyday and I need something to read in the morning for the shit. I've been pleasantly surprised by this paper in as much as I've been able to understand:
The Financial Times (FT) is a British international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and is printed at 24 sites.[2] Its primary rival is the New York City-based Wall Street Journal.
Founded in 1888 by James Sheridan and his brother, the Financial Times competed with four other finance-oriented newspapers, in 1945 absorbing the last, the Financial News (founded in 1884). The FT specialises in business and financial news while maintaining an independent editorial outlook. Printed as a broadsheet on light salmon paper, the FT is the only paper in the UK providing full daily reports on the London Stock Exchange and world markets.
The Financial Times is politically centrist, in contrast to its right-leaning competitor, The Wall Street Journal. It advocates free markets and is in favour of globalisation. During the 1980s it supported Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan's monetarist policies. However, it has aligned itself with Labour in the UK. It also has been supportive of Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister. FT editorials tend to be pro-European Union, though often critical.
Noam Chomsky said it is "the only paper that tells the truth".[10]
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I still think this is a pretty big question we need to answer. Which newspapers do we read and how do we read them?
ReplyDeleteI'll start reading this one a bit more when I have a little more dispensable income to subscribe to it. Right now supposedly I can read 10 articles a month without paying, but after I read 2 I keep getting an error message when I try to sign in.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you mean by "how do we read them?"