Which newspapers or magazines do you read?

[P_G_Fischmann]

I'm always a kind of disappointed when I try find some intersting english-language newspaper or magazine and don't find one. I mean in the German language there are so many quality newspapers and magazines that it's difficult to make a choice. In the English language I only know the TheNewYorker (http://www.newyorker.com) and ProspectMagazine (http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk). TheNewYorker is surley an extremly enjoyable read, but the topics of the articels are often boring. TheNewYorker also looks very cheap; for example there are more advertisment pages in it than text pages. Maybe you can recommend me some other magazines.
But not only do I have problems to find good magazines but also English language newspapers. I often hear and read how extremly good the NewYork Times is. But really I can't share this opinion. When I compare the articles of the NewYork Times (especially the articles about cultural themes) with the one in the NZZ (that's the leading Swiss Newspaper since 225 years!, to find under: http://www.nzz.ch) the NZZ is much more intellectually stimulating....

[RococoLocket]

^ Try reading The Times newspaper, it's British & very good :)

Personally I read Vogue and Harpers & Queen magazines regularly, and occasionally BBC History magazine, Horse & Hound or Glamour. I gave up on music magazines a while ago, my Boyfriend buys Metal Hammer & Total guitar so I just read his copies :p

[Jay]

Hi P_G_Fischmann, I don't read electronic newspapers much but I found this site (http://www.library.rdg.ac.uk/resources/epers/elecnews.html) that might be of some use to you, or this site (http://www.library.wisc.edu/journals/newspapers.htm) also looks good.

[P_G_Fischmann]

^ Try reading The Times newspaper, it's British & very good :)

:p

The Times newspaper is surly pretty good. But what I don't like about the Times is that it's published by a company owned by Rupert Murdoch. I prefer newspapers which are published by independent media companies. My intention with reading a newspaper is that I want to collect information and then build my own opinions but the Times is only the mouthpiece of Rubert Murdoch.

[RococoLocket]

The Times newspaper is surly pretty good. But what I don't like about the Times is that it's published by a company owned by Rupert Murdoch. I prefer newspapers which are published by independent media companies. My intention with reading a newspaper is that I want to collect information and then build my own opinions but the Times is only the mouthpiece of Rubert Murdoch.

Well, any newspaper you read will be the mouthpiece of someone or other, independantly published or not, and i've found The Times to be much fairer & even-handed in it's arguements than many other newspapers. Nothing has to be, or should be, taken as read from a newspaper anyway, so nomatter what you read you'll be [should be] building your own opinions.

Plus it has nice magazines in it on a Sunday.

[Sancho]

Hey P.G.,

Try The Atlantic Monthly. It’s been around forever and has some excellent, in-depth reporting as well as opinion and fiction. Also you may want to try Harpers magazine; it’s a little left of center in American thought. The first 10 or 15 pages of Harpers is a bunch of stuff they’ve pulled out of the public domain – some of it is shocking and some of it is hilarious, but all of it is interesting.

As far as Newspapers are concerned, there’s always the ubiquitous New York Times or Washington Post (they’re in hot competition for readership and consequently they push each other to scoop a story) Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune are also good Big City yet National news papers. You can skip USA Today; it’s sort of like watching T.V.

[P_G_Fischmann]

^ Personally I read Vogue :p

When you read Vogue then I guess you are female... I read Vogue too, although I'm not female, usually when I visit the hairdresser. Maybe it would be an interesting business idea to make such a magzine, like Vogue, for the male readers.

Secondly you are right when you say, that there doesn't exist any totally independent publication, but there are gradations (can I use the word gradation in this context?). Maybe you know the FrankfurterAllgemeineZeitung (FAZ), that's the leading quality newspaper in Germany and it's shares are owned by the editors, which helps the newspaper to be independent. But what do you think of the Guardian?

[mono]

As RococoLocket mentioned, many newspapers and magazines end up providing, for the readers, a mouthpiece of biased opinions. I still read my state's newspaper, The Oregonian (http://www.oregonlive.com/), but only certain sections, along with two local magazines, The Mercury (http://www.portlandmercury.com/) and The Willamette Week (http://www.wweek.com/).
Now and then, I will page through a few magazines of interest, like Adbusters and Scientific American (http://www.sciam.com/).

[P_G_Fischmann]

Hey P.G.,

Try The Atlantic Monthly. It’s been around forever and has some excellent, in-depth reporting as well as opinion and fiction.

Yeah I know the Atlantic Monthly, I can get it at our University library.

Has someone other read the reportage "In the Footsteps of Tocqueville" written by the French writer Bernard-Henry Lévy (I think it was published in the last issue of the Atlantic Monthly)?
It's a very interesting article about how america looks like through the eyes of a French writer. [The funniest passage of the article is when he writes about his visit to a brothel near LasVegas...]

[Sancho]

I enjoyed Henri Levy’s serial too. Alexis de Tocqueville’s book is a pretty good read as well. In the article I liked levy’s bit about driving in America. Any one who has driven in Europe can identify with his frustration. Here in Atlanta we’ll have five lanes of traffic driving in a line abreast formation all at the same speed; Levy called it democracy of traffic (fast cars have no more right to the left lane than slow cars). He said if you flash your lights or toot your horn in order to pass, you’ll just get a hurt or indignant look from the other driver. (I’ll add that here in Atlanta you might also get shot)

I’ll vouch for the patriotism of prostitutes at the Chicken Ranch. Nellis Air Force Base has a huge set of Air to Ground gunnery ranges in southern Nevada and the Chicken Ranch lies not far from the western boundary of Range 76. Several years ago (back when I was cool) just for kicks, we used to like to buzz the brothel as we were holding off range waiting for our range entry time. The girls were used to this so whenever they’d hear jets making low passes they’d come out on the back deck and wave the Stars and Stripes back and forth. I smile every time I think about it.

[P_G_Fischmann]

I enjoyed Henri Levy’s serial too. Alexis de Tocqueville’s book is a pretty good read as well. In the article I liked levy’s bit about driving in America. Any one who has driven in Europe can identify with his frustration. Here in Atlanta we’ll have five lanes of traffic driving in a line abreast formation all at the same speed; Levy called it democracy of traffic (fast cars have no more right to the left lane than slow cars).

I loved to read your post, especially what you wrote about driving in America. I'm not quite sure, but I believe to remember that in America the highest speed limits are 65 mph (that would be 104 kmh). In Switzerland, where I live, the highest speed limits are 120 kmh. But the positive thing is, that I live near the German border and in Germany, as you maybe know, doesn't exist any speed limits. So it's really funny when I make my little races on weekends in Germany. You see we not have the places, where one can drive as fast as one wishes to drive, but we also have the right cars in Europe to do that. I suppose I wouldn't make much to drive with a Chevy SUV on German roads, especially with our fuel prices.

[crisaor]

Check out Common dreams (http://www.commondreams.org), it's a site which recopilates various articles from different sources, all of them in english. Most of them are very interesting reading.

[baddad]

Is 'Gazilliion' a word? If it is, then surely the internet allows access to a 'gazillion' (a very large number) of different presentations of print media in most languages still spoken on this planet. Pick a place anywhere on the world map, and they will have some kind of offering representing the print media. I regularly read the Jerusalem Post, English language version (along with my city's 2 daily papers). And although I live in Canada, I can find and access most newspapers and archived magazines from anywhere in the world, and I do. Universities, governments, private enterprise, Rupert Murdoch, Conrad Black (the brigand) religious orders, scientists, propagandists, revolutionaries, and friends down the block all allow some kind of acces to print media. As for the 'interesting' factor, you'll have to read it all and decide which source is best for you. I assure you that your difficulty will be in reading only what interests you strictly because of the sheer volume of what is readily available in today's supercharged media onslaught. Happy media hunting!!!

[mono]

I forgot to mention another newspaper I read frequently - a bi-monthly local paper here to Portland, Oregon, called Street Roots (http://www.streetroots.org/).
The newspaper itself has quite a history. Several local homeless citizens and the poorer population began the paper years ago, and have developed quite a few fans with the same writers, editors, and administration. It costs a little more than the average newspaper, but most of the profit proceeds towards helping the poorer populations here in Portland.

[P_G_Fischmann]

I forgot to mention another newspaper I read frequently - a bi-monthly local paper here to Portland, Oregon, called Street Roots (http://www.streetroots.org/).
The newspaper itself has quite a history. Several local homeless citizens and the poorer population began the paper years ago, and have developed quite a few fans with the same writers, editors, and administration. It costs a little more than the average newspaper, but most of the profit proceeds towards helping the poorer populations here in Portland.

I like the idea of this newspaper.