Posted on 11/03/2015 4:00:31 AM PST by urtax$@work
Has been many years since i ubscribed to Readers Digest. Back in the 90s or 00s , i read an online article explaining the editorial staff changed to liberal hands. Do any FReepers out there still subscribe to or have a take on the Readers Digest magazine ?
I have subscribed to Readers Digest for many years, and I have not noticed a liberal bias. Sure, there are articles that could be considered to have a liberal slant, but nothing overt or ongoing that I can see.
I stopped reading it when some of their jokes and cartoons proudly proclaimed in the bottom fine print: Reprinted from Playboy magazine.
Too much quack advertising - stopped reading it.
Remove the third, fifth and sixth letters and what do you have?
Reds Digest, comrade.
I believe they were bought by a German publishing house years ago—That’s when they started their leftward drift.
We used to get it as a Christmas gift from one of my wife’s aunts. Fortunately, that aunt passed and I no longer have to put up with that crap in my house.
My dad was a subscriber. When he got dementia I eventually stopped paying for it. He lost interest. They never stopped sending it. When he went into the Alzheimers unit 500 miles away, his mail was sent to me so I can handle his affairs. It was forwarded to me. I never paid, they kept sending it. He passed , It kept coming. Then they started sending me issues, unsolicited, unpaid for. So I was getting two copies per month... Eventually They stopped. After years went by.
They are on the global warming bandwagon. they also feature Michele O.
Plus they have those stupid “7 secrets your XXXXXX never told you” crap.
Except for the humor aspects, I would pass.
When I was a child, the Reader’s Digest was the most awaited piece of mail we had except for the Sears Christmas catalog. But when I was in high-school I noticed a trend for the Digest beginning the inclusion of progressive articles. My Dad stopped reading it, as did I shortly thereafter. Mom stopped subscribing. It was a loss, like the loss of honor in the scouts when they recently beat down the doors barring homosexual leaders. The memories are grand, but the current state of both the Digest and the scouts is lamentable.
In the back of the dirty book store...
(John Prine)
“I am Jane’s Nipple”
lol
Folks, it is READEST DIGEST. It contains no original articles but reprints from the media. What do we expect it to contain?
The pictures are still nice in National Geographic, but the test has gone round the bend there, too.
Got it when the kids were young and we all enjoyed the articles, it had a qualitative change about 10 years ago and we stopped.
All the kids loved World Magazine and now I give them gift subscriptions.
We stopped getting it when it started leaning more liberal. That was probably 15 years ago. Celebrating the lives of immoral people, articles that leaned toward global issues like warming and other stuff. They started heralding the left’s talking points. Not for me.
When my Mom was alive she bought me subscriptions to Popular Science and Popular Mechanics. About 15 years ago I persuaded her to stop the Popular Science rag. They had gone deep into the PC crap, especially the fake "Global Warming" scam.
My Mom insisted on sending me the subscription to Popular Mechanics but at least ten years ago, or more, they too went left. When my Mom passed away I finally stopped receiving the rag. As it was, the last five years receiving it I would chuck the thing in the trash as soon as it was delivered and never read a single one.
The loss of Popular Mechanics was a terrible blow as my boys and I really enjoyed it and even undertook some of the projects.
Readers Digest has been pushing abortion for many years. That was when our family cancelled it.
I love woodworking and have made several items, large and small, from the old Popular mechanics issues. I still have those issues on the bookshelf in my workshop.
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