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From: radford@calgary.UUCP (Radford Neal)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: Time magazine
Message-ID: <390@vaxb.calgary.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Sep-86 15:26:50 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 17 15:26:50 1986
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Summary: Try The Economist instead

In article <1321@drutx.UUCP>, slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden) writes:

> My parents renew a subscription to Time for me every year.  (I
> probably would not buy it myself.)  Every year they ask me if
> that is ok, and if I would prefer another news magazine.
> 
> I always say no because I can't think of an alternative one.
> Newsweek is a Time clone.  US News and World Report is a right
> wing, financially oriented magazine...

> So what are my alternatives?  What do you all read, and what
> would you recommend for this aging hippie? ...

Try The Economist, published in Britain, but (I think) readily available
throughout North America. 

As an "aging hippie", you may not like its editorial content. I'm not
too thrilled with it myself at times. But we're talking *news* here, 
right? Not opinion. In that respect, The Economist has it all over 
Time, Newsweek, etc. Why, The Economist even seems to have heard that
there are countries like Malaysia, Chile, etc. off in the third world,
and that *things actually happen there*.

On the down side, it devotes a bit more space to Britain and to financial
matters than I'm interested in, but the good points outweigh this.

    Radford Neal