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 had that happen with magazines. I think I have it figured out; they want to keep up their circulation numbers in order to jack up the rates they charge advertisers.
I used to love Reader’s Digest. Mom would send me a Christmas gift subscription every year while I was in the Navy (20 years). But I noticed how they were swinging to the left like most other magazines. Now I only have 2 subscriptions (which relate to two of my hobbies), Hot VW’s and Model Railroader.
I see Readers Digest on the supermarket check-out line. No condensed book in it anymore.
(Also see Archie there. The supermarket edition of Archie is the same as always.)
That was Colonel Flag from MASH.
Yes, I couldn’t remember his name or I would have quoted him as such.
Thanks!
FYI, I hit the key word ‘ readersdigest’ and got FR postings on RD admitting liberal bias and other postings on going out of business , etc..
Reader’s Digest: Back to the Future?
National Review Online ^ | 6.19.09 | John J. Miller
Posted on 6/19/2009, 2:26:17 PM by rvoitier
Now comes this, according to the NYT:
After years of trying to broaden the appeal of Reader’s Digest, the publishers are pushing it in a decidedly conservative direction. It is cutting down on celebrity profiles and ramping up on inspiring spiritual stories. Out are generic how-to magazine features; in are articles about military life.
We discussed RD previously. General FR consensus is they were liberal. News of RD demises and resurrections blurred some opinions. So i went out and have bought off the shelves RD since last Nov. 2015. Here is what i found out.
They average around 145 pages ea. issue. They have some of same departments they had in years past... Humor in Uniform, Word Power, Life in These United States, Laughter-The Best Medicine
Each Issue had at least one story i enjoyed. They do have liberal writers. They advertise meds to a lot of old people. The internets allows us to dig a little now into the background of these writers and contributors. I found that RD is "at best" a middling to left infected publication. It is NOT close to the RD of old. The Nov 2015 edition had quotes from Susan Collins -US Senator rino. Jimmy Carter, .. an article by Ali Wentworth-wife of George Stphonopolis. An articlce "The Next Shooter" Tom Junod - blames guns. The good article was "Portrait of Patriots" Motorcycle Escorts for Military funerals.
December 2015 I noticed they quote "celebrities". A good article was Uncharitable , Derek Burnett about high cost charities being a rip off. A good article THE BIG ONE, about the big earth quake Cascadia Fault that far out weighs San Andres potential.
February 2016- a good article ESCAPE FROM NORTH KOREA from book In Order To Live - by Yeonmi Park
March 2016 - ROMANCING THE TERRORIST by Anna Erelle from book In The Skin of a Jihadist. a French Journalist posed online as a young woman interested in ISI# She now has a fatwa agin her. These were some of the good articles i read in RD over the past several months.
So, for future reference , in 2015/ 2016 Readers Digest is Liberalish with some crumbs thrown to Conservative writing.
Therefore : I will probably go and search for old RDs to read from now on.. Buy em a year at a time dating from its normal publication run. There is always a chance RD will be bought by a conservative, but don't hold your breath.
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