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Which magazines did you subscribe to?

Scepticalscribe said:
I agree.

That is why for more than a decade I have subscribed to The Economist, and, in the past two years, The Financial Times.

Moreover, I also like to read material with which I do not necessarily agree; it is good to be challenged and made to think, rather than residing in a cosy, and safe echo-chamber.
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Completely agree. Sometimes I read Time magazine, the New Yorker, and other magazines depending on the offers and the cover stories.
I am reading daily now the e-edition replicas of: WSJ, Dallas Morning News, Forth Worth Start Telegram, International New York Times, and yours The Times. The quality contrast between the actual newspaper and their websites is astounding.
 
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yaxomoxay said:
Completely agree. Sometimes I read Time magazine, the New Yorker, and other magazines depending on the offers and the cover stories.
I am reading daily now the e-edition replicas of: WSJ, Dallas Morning News, Forth Worth Start Telegram, International New York Times, and yours The Times. The quality contrast between the actual newspaper and their websites is astounding.
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If the material is well researched and well argued, I will read it with interest. In any case, it is good sometimes, to be made to examine - and interrogate - your own assumptions and stances.

Around two years ago, I had coffee with one of my old colleagues, a history professor (along with some of his staff); they were astonished when I remarked that I liked (yet do not always agree with, but would never miss) the writing of Janan Ganesh (in the FT); the old "I thought you were left" was chorused, as though one should only absorb or admit material from one's own cultural, or political, "tribe", - and well, I am, but not uncritically, and readily accept that some of our own shibboleths need to be closely examined and interrogated, and critically analysed. And updated, to accommodate and be compatible with changed circumstances, if necessary.

Besides, I like to read intelligent, thoughtful, well written material, irrespective of source.

While I love The Guardian, sometimes, you need to cast your net more widely than that when informing yourself of what is happening.
 
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LizKat said:
Yep... they're going to have to pry the New Yorkers out of my cold dead hand, or anyway off my iPad. Their long reads are how I know I still do actually have an attention span.
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Despite being of a different political leaning than me, The New Yorker is one of the best magazines in circulation. It's also a perfect magazine for long trips. I noticed that even if I disagree with some of the opinions within it, reading its articles never feels like wasted time. It kinda feels like I am listening to a friend or a professor who just happens to have a different point of view, so there's always something to learn.
 
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maflynn said:
None, magazines are a thing of the past.
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Well maybe the mainstream and avocation-associated ones, they have mostly gone online now or just folded. I wish more quarterly literary magazines would convert to digital online format... and I also sure wish some of them had retained print supporters long enough for that conversion process to have helped ensure their survival. But, there are some new ones coming along now so all is not lost.
 
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Current paid subscriptions-

In English:
FT
WSJ
Private Eye
New Scientist
The New Yorker

In French:
Le Monde
Les Echos
Capital
Que Choisir?
Mediapart

I believe it’s important to support good journalism. Now more than ever with so little good journalism and so much fake news.
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yaxomoxay said:
Completely agree. Sometimes I read Time magazine, the New Yorker, and other magazines depending on the offers and the cover stories.
I am reading daily now the e-edition replicas of: WSJ, Dallas Morning News, Forth Worth Start Telegram, International New York Times, and yours The Times. The quality contrast between the actual newspaper and their websites is astounding.
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Completely agree.
I support The Guardian although I often find it irritating but it's a very important, almost lone, voice and we really need them as a counter-balance.
If we don't pay for good journalism and investigative reporting there simply won't be any.
Google hoovers up practically all the advertising revenue as it is and the idea of no one digging into corruption or telling the truth is unbearable. But entirely possible.
We surely can't live on a diet of reality TV, what Meghan Markle is wearing and whatever Trump
decides to tweet can we?
 
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I am surprised to read some of you talk about reading magazines as "liberating" . IIRC Media was always accused of "brainwashing" people, and that gov's and corporates control people via media. Fox news and CNN are very apparent examples of this in the Trump era.


Ruggy said:
Completely agree.
I support The Guardian although I often find it irritating but it's a very important, almost lone, voice and we really need them as a counter-balance.
If we don't pay for good journalism and investigative reporting there simply won't be any.
Google hoovers up practically all the advertising revenue as it is and the idea of no one digging into corruption or telling the truth is unbearable. But entirely possible.
We surely can't live on a diet of reality TV, what Meghan Markle is wearing and whatever Trump
decides to tweet can we?
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I am still salty about magazines being sold for around $10 an issue(90's dollars) and they still had dozens of ads too.

HEALER FLAME said:
Absolutely wrong, i have 10-15 favourite magazines delivered straight to my iPad every certain period, the information you get from new magazines is way way updated, well documented and easiest to read.
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How is it updated when the magazine is a monthly issue? the news is a month old.

yaxomoxay said:
Because magazines and newspapers - printed or e-edition replicas - are a different product than online sources as they're focus on quality and not quantity and speed. People who want laser-focused knowledge can't rely mainly on online news. The lack of clickbait is also a huge plus.
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You are not wrong, but unfortunately I don't think they will survive any longer. With unlimited entertainment, there is very small place for paid printed magazines. Some readers might still exist, but not enough to keep the magazine running.
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maflynn said:
None, magazines are a thing of the past.
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Its a question about which you subscribed to in the past, or bought
 
MacBH928 said:
How is it updated when the magazine is a monthly issue? the news is a month old.
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Not all magz are monthly, the detailed and high quality contents are written by proffesional well educated personnel, way superior. Where as the web you can get all the rubbish so its hit and miss.
 
MacBH928 said:
I am surprised to read some of you talk about reading magazines as "liberating" . IIRC Media was always accused of "brainwashing" people, and that gov's and corporates control people via media. Fox news and CNN are very apparent examples of this in the Trump era.
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There is a substantial difference between printed media and TV media. Printed media does not try to entertain you as it can't compete with TV news (video killed the radio star!) in the field of shock factor. So, with the exception of a few rare magazines and some occasional yellow journalism, printed media actually has to build an argument, explain it, and provide a conclusion. Even if biased af (see The Nation or The National Review) it can't prescind from some logical reasoning. News on TV nowadays is "Breaking News" over "Breaking News". I watch CNN and Fox if I am at the gym, and nowadays they call something "Breaking News" with the big red alert and ominous music even if it's something that is planned as long as they can make it controversial ("BREAKING NEWS! Tomorrow Mueller will testify, as planned two weeks ago!").
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MacBH928 said:
How is it updated when the magazine is a monthly issue? the news is a month old.
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That's because the update you look for in many magazines is not to say quickly "what happened" but,
  • What Happened
  • Where it happened
  • Who was involved
  • Why it happened
  • When it happened
  • How it happened
Most importantly, it adds,
  • What's the full history of the event(s)
  • What are the ramification of the event(s)
  • What are the unintended consequences of the event(s)
  • What are the pro and cons to the various arguments that are brought to light
  • What is the conclusion that we can draw from the event(s)
 
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"What's a magazine, mommy?"

When I was in junior high, I received a subscription to China Pictorial, along with a Little Red Book and a QSL card (a card acknowledging reception of a shortwave transmission) from Radio Peking. (It was called Peking - not Beijing - at the time...)

Large-format, full-bleed, beautiful pictures of tractors, crops, and industrial plants. Perfect color and registration. Wish I had kept them!

My friend's mom would let him mail off for the QSL. She was afraid he would get on "a list".
[doublepost=1564601338][/doublepost]Radio Habana Cuba didn't send me a magazine subscription. But they did send me a nice "holiday" (not Christmas) card, with a drawing of Fidel Castro as the roast pig, with an apple in his mouth. I kid you not.

Fidel had a sense of humor, I guess.
 
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yaxomoxay said:
There is a substantial difference between printed media and TV media. Printed media does not try to entertain you as it can't compete with TV news (video killed the radio star!) in the field of shock factor. So, with the exception of a few rare magazines and some occasional yellow journalism, printed media actually has to build an argument, explain it, and provide a conclusion. Even if biased af (see The Nation or The National Review) it can't prescind from some logical reasoning. News on TV nowadays is "Breaking News" over "Breaking News". I watch CNN and Fox if I am at the gym, and nowadays they call something "Breaking News" with the big red alert and ominous music even if it's something that is planned as long as they can make it controversial ("BREAKING NEWS! Tomorrow Mueller will testify, as planned two weeks ago!").
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That's because the update you look for in many magazines is not to say quickly "what happened" but,
  • What Happened
  • Where it happened
  • Who was involved
  • Why it happened
  • When it happened
  • How it happened
Most importantly, it adds,
  • What's the full history of the event(s)
  • What are the ramification of the event(s)
  • What are the unintended consequences of the event(s)
  • What are the pro and cons to the various arguments that are brought to light
  • What is the conclusion that we can draw from the event(s)
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The 5 Ws...
 
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MacBH928 said:
I used to love magazines, honestly I prefer the curated professional content over the click-bait. The problem is you don't get to choose which topics to read.

I know some are still in print but many are defunct.

Which magazines did you subscribe to/read?
I want to know the popular movie magazines the only one I know is Empire, and was there ever a TV shows dedicated magazines?
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I used to love magazines as well-until they almost all went down the Crapper!!
* Popular Mechanics
* Popular science
I'd read just about any magazine 25 years ago.
Now most are just Propaganda Journalism. :eek:

ETA: Oh, Almost forgot: I couldn't wait to Pick up a new copy of Computer Shopper!! :D
I even took a summer Job at TC Computer so I could buy parts for Cost!!! :rolleyes:
 
Huntn said:
Entertainment Weekly, but I no longer subscribe to it. I too used to subscribe to several other magazines like Newsweek (before it went away), Atlantic Magazine, Popular Science, Reader’s Digest, and PC Gamer. My wife still subscribes to Vogue, Vanity Fair, and InStyle.
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I have renewed Entertainment Weekly and am shocked to discover it only comes out once a month. It used to be weekly as in the name. They should change it to Entertaniment Monthly... 🤔
 
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I cancelled my apple news+ subscription because I was only reading maclife magazine. I subscribed to maclife print magazine for less money and it feels good to take a break from the phone.
 
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In Magzter app i pay AU$10)/month for unlimited magazines from all over the world and all UK newspapers. I would pay $100 for what i get so $10 is extremely cheap price to pay.

Magazines include Time, ReadersDigest, tech and social .
 
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