What Meacham meant to say, but didn't have the balls too:

Why are you guys reading the Economist and not Newsweek? Both mags present inaccurate, superficial glosses on far flung countries' issues---the only difference is that The Economist covers more countries. Oh ya, also The Economist is a sad attempt to prove that the British Oxbridge viewpoint on the world's wogs matters even in a post Empire universe. While at least Newsweek gives the viewpoint of the current (albeit inexorably declining)Empire.