At 10:42 AM 8/2/01 +0200 Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM wrote:
>> Here is an *opinion* piece from this week's Economist.
>
>Ah yes, The Economist. The Voice Of Corporate America.
Published in the United Kingdom, of course.
>It doesn't surprise me that they write stuff like "Negotiators say they
>saved the Kyoto pact this week in Bonn. They didn't really", and "only an
>idiot couldn't see the flaws in it".
>
>It would, after all, be bad for their sales figures if they would tell their
>audience "hey, this is a good idea; you'll make less profit next quarter,
>but the environment will benefit from it".
>
>The Economist really has no other choice than to be like their audience, and
>value the Sacred Quarterly Profits over anything else. Heaven forbid they'd
>say something else...
Which is, of course, why at least once a month they lay into George W. Bush
for not developing a serious set of proposals to deal with global warming.
That's also why the Economists advocates emissions restrictions, higher
fuel efficiency standards, and greater conservation.
Her's a hint Jeroen, next time you want to publicly defame a very large
magazine, maybe you should actually *read* some of it, so that you have at
least a vague clue as to what you are talking about.
JDG
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