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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Magazines-part 2
  • Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 07:47:30 -0500


I guess I'm really looking for a good mag that reports on current events.

Print media is too slow for current events but better for deeper insight. I read current news online. For daily events reported reliably I read The New York Times but am frustrated by their new for-pay-only columnist offerings. Their Sunday Magazine always has good in-depth subjects. I read the Washington Post for political stuff. For the right side viewpoint I read National Review Online and Townhall Conservative. For opinions on just about everything I go to the Drudge Report and scroll down to their list of contributing writers where I read William Buckley Jr., Molly Ivins and many others between those steady bookends. A friend sends me his old copies of Jim Hightower's Hightower Lowdown.

I vacillate on keeping my Utne Reader subscription. They gather stories from other mags. They have a predictably left-leaning editorial position so they are useful to see that side of issues and they offer interesting stories I don't see elsewhere. But much of their material is not of interest to me, maybe because their editorial slant leans urban female.

I regret that down here in the holler I don't get NPR reception. I miss The Diane Rehm show. One of these days I will take the time and spend the money to get one of the satellite radio services.








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