I mostly agree, although this particular case was my ignorance showing.
I’ve never noticed before that economist articles don’t list their authors.
The economist uniquely states on their website that they deliberately don’t post the author s for their articles because many of them are collaborative and they think that the content of the article should be more important than who wrote it.
Which in most cases is a very admirable mission statement, but can obviously be frustrating in cases like this where you want to hold a party responsible and the only recourse is to wait for a possible internal investigation by the new source themselves.
There are obviously a lot of pros and cons there, and I’m not. Convinced that the cons outweigh the pros, but at least they aren’t deliberately hiding this specific author. The economist authors publish from anonymity as a matter of course.
News articles without an author and date shouldn’t be allowed to be posted. The legitimacy of news sources goes way down without those.
I mostly agree, although this particular case was my ignorance showing.
I’ve never noticed before that economist articles don’t list their authors.
The economist uniquely states on their website that they deliberately don’t post the author s for their articles because many of them are collaborative and they think that the content of the article should be more important than who wrote it.
Which in most cases is a very admirable mission statement, but can obviously be frustrating in cases like this where you want to hold a party responsible and the only recourse is to wait for a possible internal investigation by the new source themselves.
There are obviously a lot of pros and cons there, and I’m not. Convinced that the cons outweigh the pros, but at least they aren’t deliberately hiding this specific author. The economist authors publish from anonymity as a matter of course.