Twelve Ways to Become a Hero : Inside the Activist’s Playbook

” But it’s no joke to Yvan Allaire, Executive Chair at the Institute of Governance, who believes The Economist is running infomercials for activist hedge funds:

On a topic requiring sober, balanced coverage, The Economist cuts logical corners, tramples contrary evidence, ignores a vast store of scholarship, and conjures up an empirical “study” to produce misleading data.

It seems journalists, like scholars might be sacrificing their higher professional duties to promote what is, after all, a money making venture.  How a paper that sells itself as taking “part in a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress”  has ended up on the wrong side of intelligence is beyond me.  ” Read more