Back in the day it was great for getting at least some glimpses about what else was going on from a generally less political and more science and cultural lens. In part because there wasn’t any sort of way to actively search for info about a lot of topics.
Yep, I remember their articles on (say) plant life in the Amazon being decent, but their articles on the USSR being pretty hit-or-miss. In fact, reading these articles was what first led me to start exploring communism – because of the way they’d report on something clearly good the USSR was doing, but try to spin it in a way that made it sound frightening and scary. The hypocrisy bugged me, and made me wonder if there was more being held back.
Back in the day it was great for getting at least some glimpses about what else was going on from a generally less political and more science and cultural lens. In part because there wasn’t any sort of way to actively search for info about a lot of topics.
Yep, I remember their articles on (say) plant life in the Amazon being decent, but their articles on the USSR being pretty hit-or-miss. In fact, reading these articles was what first led me to start exploring communism – because of the way they’d report on something clearly good the USSR was doing, but try to spin it in a way that made it sound frightening and scary. The hypocrisy bugged me, and made me wonder if there was more being held back.