Readers Digest

[garyk/nm]

OK, my age is showing. Just recently started getting RD again. When did they get bought out by Drugs R Us? I haven't counted, but it seems as though 50% of the content is drug ads. 1 page story followed by 4 pages of the latest miracle drug. You name it, they got a drug for it. Don't know what you got? Doesn't matter, plenty to go around.
I really really need to buy some pharma stocks.

[Brad Johnson]

You think that's fun? Pick up copy of Nat'l Geographic and see what the eco-nazis have done to a once-fine institution.

Brad

[Fly320s]

OK, my age is showing.

There's your answer... demographics.

FWIW, I like RD, always have, yet I haven't taken a prescription drug in years.  I'm not old like some of you guys.

[Felonious Monk/Fignozzle]

+1 on the Nat'l Geo.  They used to be SO enjoyable, educational and capable of opening new vistas into other cultures, species, and the world around us.

Now, they're just one big blissninny tree hugging advertisement for global warming, the evils of MNC's, and the importance of conservation.

Nothing is without an agenda these days, it seems.
Sad.

[matis]

Hey, watch what you say about National Geographic!


In my early teens, their coverage of "native peoples" (primitive jungle tribes) were the only way we got to ogle naked female breasts.



If we had available then what kids can see now, I'd have gone blind AND grown hair on my palms.


I actually DID read the articles, though.


The same as I did with playboy that came later.  I did read those articles also,  Is it my fault they had all those dirty pictures?  



matis

[Tallpine]

+1 on the Nat'l Geo.  They used to be SO enjoyable, educational and capable of opening new vistas into other cultures, species, and the world around us.

Now, they're just one big blissninny tree hugging advertisement for global warming, the evils of MNC's, and the importance of conservation.

Nothing is without an agenda these days, it seems.
Sad.

It's not just recently ... it was probably 20+ yrs ago that I saw a photo in NG that was taken at ground level on a woods landing (where logs are stacked and loaded on trucks) that attempted to make it look like the entire area was a moonscape.  But an observant eye could see that there were new trees maybe 10-20 feet tall growing just beyond the landing area.  If the damn photographer would have stood up to take the picture instead of lying on his/her stomach, it would have shown a much different atmosphere.

We dropped our RD subscription years ago.

[brimic]

I mistakenly bought a NG subscription a few years ago remembering what a neat magazine it was to read while growing up, thankfully it was only a 1 year subscription after seeing the type of environwhacko tripe they print.