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c9I received a promotional offer from Wired yesterday that was too good to pass up: $12.97 CDN for a one-year subscription. $1.08 per issue. That's so ridiculous I had to sign up to show them the error of their ways.
Today I ruined any monetary benefit I might have gotten by also subscribing to FAIR. Oh well.
I'm looking forward to FAIR. Check out their current slate of articles. I figure it will give me more ammo to use against my Dad. Or more likely right-wing blogs and news outlets, since I'm more comfortable arguing with them than with my father.
* Please note that this phrase does *not* refer to Wired.
Today I ruined any monetary benefit I might have gotten by also subscribing to FAIR. Oh well.
I'm looking forward to FAIR. Check out their current slate of articles. I figure it will give me more ammo to use against my Dad. Or more likely right-wing blogs and news outlets, since I'm more comfortable arguing with them than with my father.
* Please note that this phrase does *not* refer to Wired.
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PR Watch
Date: 2006-10-05 05:14 pm (UTC)What I'd really love nowadays is to find just one or two newspapers/magazines that are actually worth reading for ordinary news. I'm finding that the Guardian UK is pretty good, but you can't get anything Canadian from them. I tried Rabble, but it's too leftwing, which is something I never thought I'd complain about. I suppose that if the Right gets to be unbalanced, the Left can be too, but I'd really just like to find some good old fashioned fair and balanced reporting.
So far, the best I've ever seen was the portrayal of Edward R. Murrow's old broadcasts in Good Night and Good Luck. Why can't we just go back to the golden days of news?
BTW, I used to work for a magazine, so I can tell you that Wired doesn't care what you pay, if anything, so long as they can tell their advertisers that they have X million subscribers. If you go with anything small or independent though (like FAIR), advertising income is negligible and they live or die by subscriptions so you should support them with your $.