The British "Economist" is an old magazine founded in 1843. This magazine very stubbornly and awkwardly calls itself a "newspaper". Every article in it seems to be coherent, but many of them simply cannot stand the scrutiny of time.
The magazine has also been criticized by many people in the industry. For example, in 1991, American journalist James Farrows wrote an article in the Washington Post saying that the editorials used by The Economist when reporting some news events contradicted the events themselves. In 1999, writer Andrew Sullivan criticized The Economist in The New Republic for using "genius marketing" to make up for its deficiencies in analysis and reporting, and thus became the Reader's Digest of the American corporate elite; he believed , although the Economist's predictions about the dot-com bubble bursting should have been accurate in the long run (the bubble actually burst two years later), the newspaper still over-exaggerated when the Dow Jones index fell to 7,400 points during the Labor Day holiday of 1998. the dangers facing the U.S. economy. He also believes that because many of the newspaper's reporters and editors graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford University, its editorial philosophy is limited by this homogeneous thinking. The British "Guardian" once pointed out that "writers of The Economist almost never believe that there is any political or economic problem that cannot be solved through the three-pronged approach of privatization, deregulation and liberalization." Jon Meacham, the former editor-in-chief of Newsweek who claims to be a loyal reader of The Economist, criticized the newspaper for relying too much on analysis and neglecting original reporting.