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.
RD went off the tracks when they started adding full color, full-page ads and slick formatting, and slimming down. I had a collection of the plump, newsy gems of the fifties, and I read every word in every one of them, even the stories I had no real interest in. If RD croaks this year, it will be a merciful, long-delayed croaking. Good riddance.