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Nothing personal. I just get tired of hearing about "story angles" and "columns." Frankly, the only people I want to communicate with are those who take the time to read this and related lists....the sheeple who read about the Net in Time and Newsweek and their ilk are not worth communicating with. They will be spaded under.

But what if Declan were writing for the Economist...

I have a lot more respect for Duncan's style than certain Economist articles. A case in point was a little hatchet job some journo-hack did on Sorros' piece on the open society in the Atlantic monthly. I consider that Sorros has demopnstrated empirically a knowledge of markets that few economists and no journalists can claim to match yet the economist decided to have a go at him. In any case since the piece was principally about political philosophy the Economist interpretation was plain wrong. Phill