The design that was on the front wound around to the back cover. The articles were wholesome and WORTH reading (sigh).
Posted on 06/19/2009 12:26:17 PM PDT by rvoitier
Take two minutes to tear out all the drug ads--every ad, for that matter--and the magazine is pretty good. It's still quite conservative, comparatively.
I like RD, and am a continuing happy subscriber.
PRAISE GOD.
One of the things I’ve greatly deplored in recent years is their being co-opted by the oligarchy.
Sounds like at least some return to basic values.
Yea!
If the reboot is simply a case of liberals putting out a magazine that they think will win over conservatives, then the Digest will continue its sad and drawn-out death spiral.
Businesses have cultures. The RD had a conservative culture, but that has been dissipated. An editor who has a photo of Barak Obama over her desk can try to fake it, but in the long run cannot consistently project conservatism in a way that FReepers will identify with. Unless in the process the Obama photo goes away out of conviction.The old Reader's Digest made The Road to Serfdom and F A Hayek.
If they had a Kindle edition I’d subscribe.
Will that read pdf e- book editions ? If so send em a note like I did. I get a few of my favorite magazines in such a manner and like that better than their print versions. Not as glossy and such yet I can print em out each month and kill a tree myself !........:o)
ROTFL! I'll bet a bunch of us will be one-issue readers, meaning, they'll have the obligatory photo of one of the Obamas (probably Michelle) and zap! That'll be the only issue we'll turn a page on.
It used to be a good read years ago. I can't see them going back to coservative format, not in today's world.
yes... the Kindle will read e-Books, pdf files, word docs and flat text files.
What he said!
I made $1.10 an hour in '72 forking out the stalls of 90 1000 lb. Hereford steers. And was thrilled to have the job.
On the bright side, I can still spot B.S. from a mile away.
I logged on to their web page, and there is a political blog. The latest entry is “Americans Still Dream Big”, and discusses a survey naming America’s biggest dreamers. “President Obama won in a landslide with 33 percent, benefiting from both the present-tense language of the poll question, and by the fact that Americans historically invest in their presidents their own hopes and dreams.” (EXCERPT FROM THE BLOG). Others on the list include George Washington; Benjamin Franklin; Abe Lincoln; Ronald Reagan (my favorite); George W. Bush; JFK; Thomas Jefferson; God; and a few others. So, from the website, I cannot tell if they lean to the left or to the right!
As far as I know the minimum wage doesn't apply to farmer workers.
Life in These United States, Humor in Uniform
My gripe with Reader’s Digest was that despite a two year subscription, I still got monthly notices to “renew now”, as well as phone calls asking me to extend the subscription. Finally, I told them to stick it. The magazine was fine. Their subscription harassment was a pain. I no longer subscribe.
Ditto
Thanks for the heads up.
To the new editor:
If it's not in your heart
It'll make me fart
Sadly it really doesn’t sound as if they are really returning to what they were.
I remember they had a humor columnist named Will Stanton that was one of the funniest people I’ve ever read, as good as Dave Barry or Patrick McManus.
I wonder whatever happened to him?
Ed
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