Magazines

[john voight]

Read the economist for the first time today.

Was pleased w/ the quality, however I felt that for me, there was too much stuff that really didnt matter. As an investor living in the USA, IDK how it benefits reading stuff abou every single country. I know everything is linked to a degree, however I just dont know if it is possible to keep up w/ it all.

I'll prolly start skimming in weeks to come as I sit in my library w/o a laptop.

I get 3 magazines:

Money
Smart Money
Rolling Stone

Mainly b/c they all run for under 10$ a year, and I like reading stuff that has pictures. Also, I believe 1 of those deals w/ houses, colleges, taxes, etc.. Stuff an average person w/ low Finance IQ can use.

[OmahaDoc80]

I like to read, but I have a lot of time. When I used to travel I would always buy the Economist, to make myself feel smart.

Magazines are so cheap if you buy the subscription there is no harm in ordering as many as possible. The worst is paying $6 at the airport for a magazine that is $12/year like MONEY or FORBES.

[Ikaika]

Any of you guys read Fast Company? A friend of mine suggested it but I haven't had a chance yet.

I'm a huge sucker for National Geographic and the Economist as well. Always interesting stuff. Popular Science is ok sometimes, but I only read it if its sitting on the coffee table...definitely not one that I go looking for.

[hobbes9324]

The Economist is getting a lot of favorable comments, which I would like to add to. If you're an American, it gives you a different slant on a lot is topics that you THINK you know about - makes you think, which is always a good thing. It can be pretty slow going - I'm a crazy fast reader, and it takes me at least a couple of hours to go thru it, as compared to maybe 15 minutes for Time or Newsweek. But I think it's time well spent.

I also subscribe to the New Yorker, mainly because I was buying a copy or two a month when I travel, which makes no sense as the subscription price is so low. As noted by other posters, lots of interesting articles. My wife got me the CD boxed set of every issue printed - I'm up to 1928 so far....LOL

Lastly, because I live in Reno which has the worst newspaper in the universe, I subscibe to the Sunday Chicago Trib....mostly for old times sake....

MM MD

[astroglide]

i'm surprised that playboy hasn't been mentioned. i like it for a variety of reasons, but my favorite parts are the interview and twenty question sections. playboy advisor, random product news, back page black & white random nudity, occasionally engaging articles, etc are all great. i'm not so much into the playboy look as far as naked women are concerned, but it's still fun to see while flipping through the pages.

i also subscribe to entertainment, which is good random fun. my final one is car and driver, but i'm going to let it lapse. i get consumer reports for free, but i would only subscribe online if i didn't.

my one and only economist purchase came recently, and apparently unsurprisingly it was at an airport. i thought it was great, but i'm not sure i could keep up with the volume. i'm travelling this weekend, and i'm looking forward to picking up a copy. i think i'll probably keep it going as a standard travel purchase.

[gusmahler]

With all this talk about The Economist, someone has to link to http://www.theonion.com/content/node/34138

[DeuceKicker]

The only magazine subscription I have is to Disney's Princesses magazine.

That Belle is a riot!

[Josem]

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Magazines I currently read regularly:

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The Weekly Standard

It's a magazine on neo-conservatism, which fits neatly with my world view and values. It also relates to my work - I download it from their website every week and print it out, ensuring that I get fresh and relevant stuff, rather than material that has taken weeks to get shipped to Australia.


I also enjoy reading through New Scientist and the Economist when I can.



Every time I read Time (typically while waiting for fish & chips, or at a doctor's surgery, or whatever) it reminds why I don't normally read the thing. It seems awfully left-wing to me.



Also, I recently started keep an eye on www.lifehacker.com, which, although online and not strictly a magazine, the content is not fundamentally different to a good life improvement magazine.

[garcia1000]

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It's a magazine on neo-conservatism, which fits neatly with my world view and values.

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Many people do this and I don't understand. I'd rather read stuff that doesn't fit neatly with my world-view

Slightly off-topic: Financial Times or Wall Street Journal, which one do you guys prefer? I used to read both, but now I read FT only. Seems to give better coverage of things I'm interested in.

[Josem]

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It's a magazine on neo-conservatism, which fits neatly with my world view and values.

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Many people do this and I don't understand. I'd rather read stuff that doesn't fit neatly with my world-view

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I like my media (whether it be my newspaper, my internet websites, whatever) to broadly share the same values as me.

While I don't expect to always agree with the editorial, I do want them to talk about things that I think are important. Take this forum, for example, as an analogy - if I had a particular distaste for high quality thinking about poker, I wouldn't read/participate in it. But since I appreciate the (generally) high quality thought processes on issues relevant to me, I do read the thing.


In the case of the Weekly Standard, when it talks about the various disputes in the Middle East, I like that it refers to people who set off suicide bombs as terrorists. By contrast, I feel that my government owned and funded media outlets in Australia (and the left wing press) refer to these people as "militants" and the like. Of course, I understand where they come from, and I just disagree with that approach.


At the end of the day, I don't enjoy reading material from a point of view that I believe (trying to emphasis both the "I" and "believe" parts there) have critical flaws in their thinking process.



Similarly, I imagine that not many communists read the Wall Street Journal or the Economist - 'cause it talks about issues using values and from a point of view that communists do not share.