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.
Folks, it is READEST DIGEST. It contains no original articles but reprints from the media. What do we expect it to contain?
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.
Readers Digest has been pushing abortion for many years. That was when our family cancelled it.
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.