• JucheBot1988
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    2 years ago

    Not that it was ever good (as a kid I used to read back issues all the way to the 60s at my local library), but it’s gotten exponentially worse ever since NewsCorp bought it.

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      2 years ago

      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.

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        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.