In for still more "complex transformation"
Posted on 02/18/2013 7:06:44 AM PST by Zakeet
Edited on 02/18/2013 7:09:13 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
In a bid to slash $465 million of debt, Reader
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In for still more "complex transformation"
No more free bus rides to work in Chappaqua, I’m guessing.
"If you eliminate the third, fifth, and sixth letters, then it's 'Red's Digest', comrade."
“I am Joe’s incompetent CEO”
That’s the Reader’s Digest version.........
Did I read that in recent years Reader’s Digest has morphed into the most worthless piece of Marxist trash? If so,I say bravo!
At some point around 2003, I was sitting there and attempting to read a Reader’s Digest...and here was a global warming story treated as absolute truth. Later in the same copy....a story over people with lack of health care.
The thing is....people that generally read Reader’s Digest are fairly naive and never question the stories in it. I put down the magazine. I think around 2008, at some Dentist office....I picked up a copy and saw the same type of material.
It’s basically drafted over in the past ten years to some trash document. The same issue came up with National Geographic. I think it’s mostly all bogus science and has little to do with geography. Both magazines are suffering from lack of readers and it doesn’t surprise me over their financial problems.
I gave up on the National Geographic three years ago. I had been a subscriber since 1975, and have a complete collection that goes back to about 1950. The old ones are still worth reading and browsing.
I subscribed to Readers Digest years ago.
Was the best water-closet read.
The short ‘real-life’ stories and the one liner quotes all over the magazine.
Picked up one recently at the Dentist office and found none of the charm of the magazine from years ago.
Same with Yankee Magazine.
I dropped Reader’s Digest a few years ago after they started printing what amounts to love letters to the Obamas. They pestered me with offers of nearly free magazines for a year after that in hopes I would renew my subscription.
For decades it was a family tradition to give subscriptions of RD and NatGeo for Christmas presents. That ended at least 10 or more years ago by request of all the recipients. All at about the same time agreed that both had turned into nothing more than trite rags of liberalism.
It was a shame. The condensed books were good reads back in the day. You could settle in for an evening by the fire and read a couple of good stories in one setting.
The RD reporting got worse and worse and more slanted all the time. Then it just got repetitive.
Popular Mechanics did about the same and started trying to be some kind of social reform media instead of a handy man’s how to. It got cancelled as well. Popular Science got axed by us way before that for the same reason.
Good riddance. RD was just another liberal rag that fell from the truth a few decades ago. I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s with it and thought it was great but by 1990 I canceled my subscription as it was so left-leaning it nearly tore the left legs off my end table.
I subscribed for a few years of light reading. Most stories were fair and balanced, then the shift to left occurred and I escaped their stupidity marketing by unsubscibing in the early 90s.
Apparently we ALL were their readership, their demographics.
Wonder if they figured out why we ALL left....lol
now that it skews left:
Humor in Uninformed
Quotable Quotas
Life in These Union States
Lefter, the Best Medicine
In 1945, it published Friedrich A. von Hayek's The Road to Serfdom in serial form,
introducing this classic to millions of readers.
Didn’t they do away with that years ago ???
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