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So this is clearly a struggling industry but how much is this a reflection of the country as well?

And what’s up with the Archie, Betty, and Veronica stuff?
 
I get the New Yorker and would recommend. The political writing is predictably mainstream Dem. The profiles are usually good, the science writing is typically excellent. The fiction is sometimes downright bad, often very strange, but occasionally astoundingly good. Cartoons are a nice bonus.
 
And they're all insanely expensive. At least the price listed on the cover is a bunch, I don't have with actual purchase. Low teens $
 
My parents took Time, Newsweek, National Geographic, Look, Life, U.S. News and World Report. My father carried on with his father’s subscription to Progressive Farmer and my mother got Southern Living. Reader’s Digest seems like it was always there too. I got Sport and Sports Illustrated. My brother was partial to Popular Science too. And lastly there was Our State (Which was originally The State ). I do remember spending good time with many of those publications and devoured Sports Illustrated almost immediately.

I don’t know why we subscribed to so many magazines - they did get read - maybe it was high schoolers selling subscriptions that explains it. We also got a morning (The Greensboro Daily News) and an afternoon (The Sanford Herald) newspaper as well as a local weekly (The Chatham News). Mailed to us was another weekly (The State Port Pilot) out of Southport since my parents owned a house at Long Beach.

These days I spend a goodly amount of time with old newspapers - almost exclusively by way of Newspapers.Com. One of the things that strikes me is layout, which I reckon also goes for magazines to some degree. That is that when we read newspapers and magazines our eyes took in a great amount of headline and illustration information literally at a glance. Headlines were key in that regard as were blurb pages and tables of contents in magazines.

Once the news came to us so differently. And we approached it quite differently as well.
 
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My parents took Time, Newsweek, National Geographic, Look, Life, U.S. News and World Report. My father carried on with his father’s subscription to Progressive Farmer and my mother got Southern Living. Reader’s Digest seems like it was always there too. I got Sport and Sports Illustrated. My brother was partial to Popular Science too. And lastly there was Our State (Which was originally The State ). I do remember spending good time with many of those publications and devoured Sports Illustrated almost immediately.

I don’t know why we subscribed to so many magazines - they did get read - maybe it was high schoolers selling subscriptions that explains it. We also got a morning (The Greensboro Daily News) and an afternoon (The Sanford Herald) newspaper as well as a local weekly (The Chatham News). Mailed to us was another weekly (The State Port Pilot) out of Southport since my parents owned a house at Long Beach.

These days I spend a goodly amount of time with old newspapers - almost exclusively by way of Newspapers.Com. One of the things that strikes me is layout, which I reckon also goes for magazines to some degree. That is that when we read newspapers and magazines our eyes took in a great amount of headline and illustration information literally at a glance. Headlines were key in that regard as were blurb pages and tables of contents in magazines.

Once the news came to us so differently. And we approached it quite differently as well.
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Yes indeed! And TV Guide was also on the coffee table. Pretty much all those you've listed, save a few you mentioned, at our house. We also "took" the local paper and the larger, regional publication - depending on where we lived (grew up in 5 different States). Charlotte Observer when in NC, Atlanta Journal -Constitution when in Ga.; Birmingham News when in Bama... etc...

And of course there were only a handful of TV stations available - before cable. If you were lucky you could get a couple different of each: ABC, NBC CBS and PBS. When in Western N.C. We could get the Asheville AND the South Carolina version of ABC... and the Charlotte versions of CBS and NBC along with the Greenville/Spartanburg stations as well. Channels 3 and 7 were both CBS (Charlotte and S.C. respectively); Channels 9 and 13 were both ABC (NC and SC respectively; Channel 4 & 6 were NBC - etc...
 
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I read most things online and on tablets but do some hard paper books in hand. The only 2 magazines I subscribe to are The Atlantic and The Economist. Both excellent reads and I prefer holding them in my hand, especially on a plane. I’m also oldish, so maybe that fits the stereotype.
 
About all we get now are UNC alum related magazines and the Costco magazine.
I used to get and enjoy my National Geographic and Oxford American but the pile of unread ones finally made me cancel.
 
On a related note, I just saw that Publishers Clearinghouse was declaring Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
 
I use to love reading magazines on my iPad but they kept fucking with the subscriptions and viewing options.

The best deal now is through Apple News. They have a fair amount of magazines that you can download and read. I use to have separate subscriptions for Esquire and Fortune, but now that got rolled up into Apple News.
 
Growing up, my parents house was home to LOTS of magazines: Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker, Sports Illustrated, National Geographic, Life, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Southern Living…..probably forgetting several.

When I first had a job I added subscriptions to Swimming World, Bicycling, Runner’s World, Adirondack Life, Outside, The Economist, The New Republic, The Nation, and Sporting News.

When we first moved to Chapel Hill, my parents subscribed to the Greensboro Daily News, the Raleigh News & Observer (could it have just been the Raleigh Observer for the morning paper and the Raleigh News was an afternoon paper with a smaller subscriber base?), and the Chapel Hill Newspaper (which came out 1, 2, 4, or 6 days a week depending on the year; it was an afternoon paper).

Today, the magazines are The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic, Our State, and The Economist.

Back in the day, Pre-Internet days, most magazine subscriptions were $8-12 a year; they were great deals! A LOT of reading material (pennies per page at most) of excellent reading material delivered to your mailbox weekly.
 
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Today, the magazines are The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic, Our State, and The Economist.
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I am disappointed in Our State Very little coverage of the State-tons of ads My take
 
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