The Economist

Imageboards are not the only forum out there that promotes anonymous writing. The weekly “newspaper” The Economist is widely known for not including names of the writers in their articles, that is, they don’t have “bylines”. Some readers say that is bad because they cannot check if the author might have some sort of bias, or even that it’s really a cover-up of the fact that the articles are actually largely written by inexperienced students of journalism. I object to both of these with same grounds I value anonymity in internet discussions: The reader should always have to judge the writings by their content, not by who wrote them. Critical thinking cannot be outsourced in any manner.

This concept also extends to fiction, where an idea sometimes called Death of the Author.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11050299 written by “batz” on 2016-02-06:

Mocks Populi

There is a an apocryphal story in which your anonymous correspondent was on a small business jet somewhere between Davos and Dubai, when he asked a former Thatcher minister what shade of pink the Financial Times newspaper was. “Parlour,” the minister replied. It is in the spirit of this self-referential anecdote that an auspicious news peg has provided an opportunity to sound off on a pet saw and perhaps let on that I went to Cambridge.

Broadly, this newspaper is neither here nor there on a given issue, other than to say that it is different from what you expect - and for reasons that may surprise you. The prediction will be driven by the available data, include a smirk at the newcomer, and give a sop to the status quo. All things equal, it will predict outcomes that are some function of the sum of elements by the number of elements, and provide a view that is “radically centerist,” if perhaps a bit smug. A reversion to the mean, indeed.

– Every Economist Article Ever

To think that I failed to notice for two full months that the FF7 remake had been released, and then read about it in The Economist, which is not exactly known for covering video games.