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Who wrote this article?
by comesee 8y ago
Who wrote this article?
- tareqak 8y agoI don't see an author mentioned.
- jpatokal 8y agoBy long-standing tradition, the Economist's articles have no byline.
- raverbashing 8y agoSounds like a PR piece
- TomMarius 8y agoThe Economist would surely mark a PR piece https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2013/09/04/why-are-the-economists-writers-anonymous https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2013/09/04/...
- coldtea 8y agoThen a real good paying PR piece -- the kind that's passed as an actual article.
- tareqak 8y agoCould you please identify the PR for me? I'm genuinely intrigued: all I see is an observation that different kind of bank has an audience outside of its intended audience, an explanation of how it operates differently, and criticism that it is not as different as it makes itself out to be.
- comesee 8y agoBy PR he means advertising. This article functions as advertising for Sharia banks.
- tareqak 8y agoThen almost every article in TechCrunch is... never mind.
- TomMarius 8y agoI don't get it. "Sharia bank" is not a partnership, chain or franchise, it's a concept like "British law".
- raverbashing 8y agoRead the article, there are 2 entities mentioned, one of them prominently.
- vmlinuz 8y agoCommon question here - standard Economist policy is never to name their writers and correspondents, except very very rarely. Their content is published under the name of the newspaper, not the individual author.
- homarp 8y agohttps://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2013/09/04/why-are-the-economists-writers-anonymous https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2013/09/04/... explains why
- tareqak 8y agoThey should have a "Who is the author?" byline that points to link you posted (at least that's what I would do).
- titanix2 8y ago> "Sharia forbids investments in sin stocks like arms, alcohol and tobacco." This very neutral way of writing is telling.
- keiferski 8y ago“Sin stock” is a commonly-used phrase in finance and does not imply an ethical opinion on the topic by the user of the term, merely that ethical opinions are often held on the topic by the public/investors at large. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sinfulstock.asp https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sinfulstock.asp
- titanix2 8y agoToday I learned. I'm still sure it is written as a double entendre just like the last sentence of the article.