slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden) (09/16/86)
> >1)I take it as a matter of principle to be *very* skeptical of > Time magazine. > tim sevener whuxn!orb I agree, and would like to ask a question of the group along these lines. My parents renew a subscription to Time for me every year. (I probably would not buy it myself.) Every year they ask me if that is ok, and if I would prefer another news magazine. I always say no because I can't think of an alternative one. Newsweek is a Time clone. US News and World Report is a right wing, financially oriented magazine. I read Yoga Journal and Dragon, too, but I don't think that's what they have in mind! So what are my alternatives? What do you all read, and what would you recommend for this aging hippie? (That her parents would conceivably buy her, of course. I don't think they'd shell out for Playgirl. :-) -- Sue Brezden (HASA member) ihnp4!drutx!slb 1C33, x83829 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you got nothin', you got nothin' to lose. You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal. -Bob Dylan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
radford@calgary.UUCP (Radford Neal) (09/17/86)
In article <1321@drutx.UUCP>, slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden) writes: > My parents renew a subscription to Time for me every year. (I > probably would not buy it myself.) Every year they ask me if > that is ok, and if I would prefer another news magazine. > > I always say no because I can't think of an alternative one. > Newsweek is a Time clone. US News and World Report is a right > wing, financially oriented magazine... > So what are my alternatives? What do you all read, and what > would you recommend for this aging hippie? ... Try The Economist, published in Britain, but (I think) readily available throughout North America. As an "aging hippie", you may not like its editorial content. I'm not too thrilled with it myself at times. But we're talking *news* here, right? Not opinion. In that respect, The Economist has it all over Time, Newsweek, etc. Why, The Economist even seems to have heard that there are countries like Malaysia, Chile, etc. off in the third world, and that *things actually happen there*. On the down side, it devotes a bit more space to Britain and to financial matters than I'm interested in, but the good points outweigh this. Radford Neal
orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) (09/18/86)
> > > >1)I take it as a matter of principle to be *very* skeptical of > > Time magazine. > > tim sevener whuxn!orb > > I agree, and would like to ask a question of the group along > these lines. > > So what are my alternatives? What do you all read, and what > would you recommend for this aging hippie? (That her parents would > conceivably buy her, of course. I don't think they'd shell out > for Playgirl. :-) > -- > > Sue Brezden It depends upon what type of magazine you want: weekly, monthly, bimonthly and what your primary interest in coverage is. I have found The UTNE Reader to be one of the best - it is kind of like a "Reader's Digest" of the Alternative Press and of events and news which are generally ignored by the mainstream media. The only bad thing about the UTNE Reader is it only comes out every two months. But it definitely distills the best of the Alternative Press on everything from politics to art to music and culture in general. The other thing nice about the UTNE Reader is that in every issue it reviews a segment of the alternative press in a particular area: for example, books on the arms race, weekly newsmagazines, magazines that deal with organic farming, and every topic one would imagine of an unregenerate hippy. They also *always* provide the address for subscriptions to magazines they have excerpted in an article. So if you see a lot of articles you like from a particular magazine, you know where to get a subscription. The Progressive is a good magazine which comes out monthly with a primary stress on politics. Sometimes the Progressive takes too pessimistic a view, being scathingly critical of absolutely everything for my own taste, but I am still glad to subscribe. Mother Jones is a good magazine which covers different aspects of culture and delights in iconoclasm and uncovering scandal. For weekly news, In These Times, is a very good newspaper which often does a very good job of covering international news ignored by the mainstream media. Their European correspondent, Diana Johnstone, is top rate in my book. Of course In These Times does not have the bulk of a Time magazine or Newsweek because they simply don't have that much money for a huge staff. But they give a more analytical and broader perspective than you get from your local daily newspaper. Which, it seems to me, is what you want from that type of journal if you already subscribe to a daily newspaper. To my mind Time simply echoes what is covered by daily newspapers anyway, with their usual biased slant, so what do you gain by that anyway? For coverage of the nuclear arms race there is the monthly, Nuclear Times, which was founded by a coalition of antinuclear weapons groups. One thing I have found interesting in Nuclear Times is a new section devoted to "The Media and the Arms Race". This section has very good critiques of the biased mainstream press coverage of nuclear weapons issues with facts to back up their claims in terms of column inches or broadcast time actually devoted to arms race issues and the type of bias inherent in it. For example, they did an indepth study of TV news reporting on the nuclear arms race and found it constituted some 1% of all the network news, far less than such topics as terrorism or Bruce Springsteen, and the usual trivia or ignorant hysteria that passes for "news". Of this miniscule percentage devoted to the arms race, much of it in their survey included the idiotic reports about the Geneva Summit, which primarily consisted of remarks about Raisa Gorbachev's tastes in bourgeois clothes and the like. The Nation is another good weekly tabloid which primarily covers politics and is consistently liberal. (unlike the New Republic which has gone to the barbarians and the warmongers!!) Overall, I think the UTNE Reader is the best: from that you can pick magazines whose articles you consistently liked in the UTNE Reader. tim sevener whuxn!orb
tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum) (09/18/86)
> So what are my alternatives? Sue Brezden > (HASA member) --- I recommend the Economist (a British magazine). It is probably too conservative for you, but it has a more thorough and more balanced news coverage than any other news magazine I have seen. -- Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL ihnp4!ihlpg!tan
slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden) (09/18/86)
>> >1)I take it as a matter of principle to be *very* skeptical of >> > Time magazine. >> > tim sevener whuxn!orb >> I agree, and would like to ask a question of the group along >> these lines. >> So what are my alternatives? >> Sue Brezden >It depends upon what type of magazine you want: weekly, monthly, >bimonthly and what your primary interest in coverage is. >..[info on several publications] >Which, it seems to me, is what you want from that type of journal if >you already subscribe to a daily newspaper. To my mind Time simply >echoes what is covered by daily newspapers anyway, with their usual >biased slant, so what do you gain by that anyway? > tim sevener whuxn!orb Thanks, Tim, for your good article and your help. You are right, of course, it does depend on what I am looking for. I should have included more information. I take 2 daily newspapers, so I don't really care about the "facts" in Time--the rehashing of the information. Guess what I'm looking for is information that my local papers may overlook, in depth reports, and good old muckraking. Will probably buy a copy of "Mother Jones" first. Thanks again. -- Sue Brezden (HASA member) ihnp4!drutx!slb 1C33, x83829 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you got nothin', you got nothin' to lose. You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal. -Bob Dylan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
asgard@well.UUCP (J. R. Stoner) (09/20/86)
In article <1256@whuxl.UUCP> orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) writes: >> > >> >1)I take it as a matter of principle to be *very* skeptical of >> > Time magazine. >> > tim sevener whuxn!orb [...] >I have found The UTNE Reader to be one of the best - it is kind of >like a "Reader's Digest" of the Alternative Press and of events >and news which are generally ignored by the mainstream media. ^^^^^^^^^^ Maybe the "news" that is "ignored" are the unbalanced manifestos that usually inhabits UTNE, Mother Jones et al. By your reconing news magazines which do not have the same extremist political axe to grind as you is not worthy of being called a "news" magazine. I suppose by "mainstream" you mean the 80 per cent or more of us who are not extremists, like you. [...] > >Mother Jones is a good magazine which covers different aspects of >culture and delights in iconoclasm and uncovering scandal. This is suppposed to be balanced journalism? It would seem you only recommend magazines which agree with your preconceived biases. > >For weekly news, In These Times, is a very good newspaper which >often does a very good job of covering international news ignored ^^^^^^^ >by the mainstream media. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ [...] >To my mind Time simply >echoes what is covered by daily newspapers anyway, with their usual ^^^^^^^^^^^ >biased slant, so what do you gain by that anyway? ^^^^^^^^^^^^ The pot calling the kettle black. I thought only the McCarthyites spread around conspiricy theories, that are not backed up by attribution. > >For coverage of the nuclear arms race there is the monthly, >Nuclear Times, which was founded by a coalition of antinuclear >weapons groups. And you seriously expect them to be unbiased? > >The Nation is another good weekly tabloid which primarily covers >politics and is consistently liberal. (unlike the New Republic which >has gone to the barbarians and the warmongers!!) Again with the conspiricy theories, eh? > tim sevener whuxn!orb -- From the manic ravings of J. R. (May the farce be with you) Stoner
janw@inmet.UUCP (09/23/86)
>[tan@ihlpg.UUCP ] >> So what are my alternatives? Sue Brezden >--- >I recommend the Economist (a British magazine). It is probably >too conservative for you, but it has a more thorough and more >balanced news coverage than any other news magazine I have seen. On the whole, yes; and its analysis helps, too, whether one agrees or not (I often don't - too "wet" for me). Of U.S. dailies, the WSJ is the most objective I've seen, and its presentation is time-saving. "Commentary" is a good monthly magazine of opinion (with a Jewish slant, but of general interest); it's right-of-center. "The New Republic" is a very decent liberal weekly. Excellent U.S. political news coverage and analysis. All these may be too sedate for an "aging hippie". A balanced "Mother Jones" - "National Review" pair might work. Jan Wasilewsky