Lets point this out...it’s not just “o” which has seen a wake-up call. The National Geographic has seen some problems with subscriptions. The Readers Digest crowd has seen some problems. Time and Newsweak? Same way.
So I’ll point this out. This week...Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes fame died. To be candid and honest here...he was a liberal but the vast amount of the interviews that he ever did or stories that he told...were not slanted in any fashion. He was one of the old fashioned type journalists who could avoid making a story into a political slant. In today’s atmosphere....you can’t find many folks like that.
Magazines in the old days....were not politically slanted, and they enjoyed a regular subscription level. Over the past two decades....thats changed. There might be a lesson here for folks to learn from...but I doubt that we will figure this out for at least another decade or two.
National Geographic used to have some great photos and articles about strange places. Now, it’s all politics and liberal guilt, all the time. My wife has subscribed to it for 40 or 50 years, as her mother did before her, and kept stacks and shelves of them to reread. But now I think she is finally letting her subscription lapse.