# \#magazines-newspapers **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/tag/magazines-newspapers/72.md [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) --- ## [Where do you get your online news from? Do you pay for it?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-get-your-online-news-from-do-you-pay-for-it/1032019)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [September 6, 2026, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-get-your-online-news-from-do-you-pay-for-it/1032019 "2026-09-06T17:08:39Z")
“Your topic is similar to…” has a few accurate hits subject-wise, but not very timely–the newest thread goes back to 2007: What’s your on-line news source? In My Humble Opinion So… Where do you get your news? In My Hu… --- ## [Mad #600 out](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-600-out/1031638)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [July 17, 2026, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-600-out/1031638 "2026-07-17T17:36:10Z")
I picked this up today in the local comic store (you used to be able to get Mad at the newsstand, but even the few remaining places selling magazines don’t seem to carry it – only “Special” issues). 1.) Issue #600! They… --- ## [WaPo readers - no more comments on Opinion pieces?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wapo-readers-no-more-comments-on-opinion-pieces/1029691)
**Author:** [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [May 5, 2026, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wapo-readers-no-more-comments-on-opinion-pieces/1029691 "2026-05-05T03:03:14Z")
Am I missing something, or has the WaPo disabled commenting on opinion pieces? The Ed Board is pretty firmly stuck up the Orange Moronic Menace’s behind, but I actually like reading the comments now and then - there’s s… --- ## [Banning the Associated Press from White House briefings?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banning-the-associated-press-from-white-house-briefings/1014791)
**Author:** [@JoePockets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoePockets)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [August 19, 2025, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banning-the-associated-press-from-white-house-briefings/1014791 "2025-08-19T23:16:38Z")
I’m trying to understand this, So the press can’t cover him because he is upset that they don’t use the made up name of an international waterway. Is it legal for the President to pick and choose who attends when he brie… --- ## [Where can I get a 1966 Japanese 'Magazine for Men'?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-get-a-1966-japanese-magazine-for-men/1020260)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [July 7, 2025, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-get-a-1966-japanese-magazine-for-men/1020260 "2025-07-07T22:04:58Z")
This is a long-shot, but does anyone know where I can get this 1966 Japanese men’s magazine? (@TokyoBayer , maybe?) WHY do I want this magazine? Because my dad i… --- ## [Thrifting Magazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thrifting-magazine/1018931)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2025, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thrifting-magazine/1018931 "2025-06-09T22:50:01Z")
Was browsing at the bookstore when I saw Thrifting Magazine attractively priced at $18. That gets you “America’s Best Cities To Thrift!”, a list of thrift chain stores, “Items Never To Buy At Thrift Stores” (underwear! … --- ## [Freedom of speech in the US](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-of-speech-in-the-us/1014833)
**Author:** [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Replies:** 74\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2025, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-of-speech-in-the-us/1014833 "2025-04-24T23:13:35Z")
I wasn’t sure where to put this story about Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post, announcing basically an edict from now on the WP will only publish stories advocating freedom and free markets. (My Irony Meter seems … --- ## [Did your father keep "men's" magazines around the house?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-father-keep-mens-magazines-around-the-house/1014097)
**Author:** [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Replies:** 82\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2025, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-father-keep-mens-magazines-around-the-house/1014097 "2025-03-18T23:46:38Z")
My stepfather had all manner of these things in the 60s with names like “Real Men”, “Stag”, etc. He also had tabloid newspapers, such as they were. I’m pretty sure my mother wouldn’t allow Playboy in the house, and I kno… --- ## [What has happened to the Darwin Awards?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-happened-to-the-darwin-awards/1015040)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2025, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-happened-to-the-darwin-awards/1015040 "2025-03-03T21:56:06Z")
The Darwin Awards were a big part of social media in The Aughts and as recently as 2020. Many News publications published odd news and suggested a Darwin Award. The web site hasn’t been updated since 2022. I know the … --- ## [Instead of the New Yorker?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/instead-of-the-new-yorker/1013922)
**Author:** [@GailForce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GailForce)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2025, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/instead-of-the-new-yorker/1013922 "2025-02-08T21:19:32Z")
I’ve subscribed to the magazine most of my life, but only lately have I realized How expensive it is. $9.99 the cover price on the latest issue. I’ve got a continuing subscription, letting them bill my credit card, but… --- ## [Ruminating about newspaper subscriptions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruminating-about-newspaper-subscriptions/1013737)
**Author:** [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [February 4, 2025, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruminating-about-newspaper-subscriptions/1013737 "2025-02-04T20:00:54Z")
Mostly the WaPo, but NYT too. I canceled both somewhere in the chaos of the election cycle because of the sanewashing of the orange menace, and, especially in the NYT, the way they hammered the Biden admin and glossed o… --- ## [NYT strike? What's up?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-strike-whats-up/1009725)
**Author:** [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 5, 2024, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-strike-whats-up/1009725 "2024-11-05T17:42:15Z")
So, I’ve read here on the dope that some workers at the NYT are on strike, but I’m curious Who? Over what issues? Any guesses as to likely outcomes? So if course I’m turning to the rest of you to find clear answers. … --- ## [William Lewis named Publisher & CEO of The Washington Post](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/william-lewis-named-publisher-ceo-of-the-washington-post/992660)
**Author:** [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2024, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/william-lewis-named-publisher-ceo-of-the-washington-post/992660 "2024-06-28T02:06:07Z")
This is not good news. Lewis is scarcely the balanced journalist we might have hoped for. If we couldn’t get balance, we would have hoped for a slight liberal (factual?) bent. Instead we’ve been given this Murdoch tra… --- ## [Bat Durston rides again](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-durston-rides-again/1003345)
**Author:** [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2024, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-durston-rides-again/1003345 "2024-06-27T00:35:29Z")
The very first issue of Galaxy, October 1950, had a back cover with a parallel Western and bad space opera story, with the headline “You’ll never see it in Galaxy.” Gold was saying that their science fiction was not goi… --- ## [The May 2024 Reader's Digest will be its last issue in the U.K](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-may-2024-readers-digest-will-be-its-last-issue-in-the-u-k/1002257)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2024, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-may-2024-readers-digest-will-be-its-last-issue-in-the-u-k/1002257 "2024-06-14T22:42:33Z")
After 86 years, they’re closing up shop. I just now found that out. At first glance, it looked like they were shuttering for good, but they aren’t, at least not for the American edition. --- ## [Trying to remember the details of a magazine postal contest](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-remember-the-details-of-a-magazine-postal-contest/998717)
**Author:** [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [March 14, 2024, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-remember-the-details-of-a-magazine-postal-contest/998717 "2024-03-14T19:38:45Z")
I have the vague memory of a magazine (it might have been the popular science monthly Omni) that ran a contest in which readers were invited to creatively address a letter and mail it to the magazine via the USPS. The mo… --- ## [What I look forward to most in the Sunday NYT](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-look-forward-to-most-in-the-sunday-nyt/991603)
**Author:** [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2023, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-look-forward-to-most-in-the-sunday-nyt/991603 "2023-10-22T19:21:27Z")
It used to be the crossword. Then it was the Social Q’s column. But for the past couple years it’s been the Metropolitan Diary. Love those little stories. --- ## [Boy's Life Magazine - Still At It After All These Years](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boys-life-magazine-still-at-it-after-all-these-years/704668)
**Author:** [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [May 13, 2023, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boys-life-magazine-still-at-it-after-all-these-years/704668 "2023-05-13T05:30:50Z")
Since I had extra time at the MD’s, I decided to rot my brain and try the magazines. I could not believe my eyes - a real, live “Boy’s Life” - official publication of Boy Scouts of America. Along with (nearly) every st… --- ## [Jack Smith, AP photographer of Mt. Saint Helens, has died last month at 80](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-smith-ap-photographer-of-mt-saint-helens-has-died-last-month-at-80/980410)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2023, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-smith-ap-photographer-of-mt-saint-helens-has-died-last-month-at-80/980410 "2023-02-27T01:56:38Z")
Smith passed away on Jan. 4 at his home in La Mesa, California. He had cancer and had been in hospice care, said his wife, Judy Smith. In addition to capturing the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens, he shot photos of the… --- ## [Clarkesworld magazine no longer accepting submissions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarkesworld-magazine-no-longer-accepting-submissions/980114)
**Author:** [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Replies:** 98\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2023, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarkesworld-magazine-no-longer-accepting-submissions/980114 "2023-02-26T02:57:59Z")
Neil Clarke of Clarkesworld has announced they’re closed to submissions.\* The reason, they’ve been swamped by AI-created stories overwhelming them. This seems to be a real problem for magazines. There is no good solutio… --- ## [Question for New Yorker subscribers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-new-yorker-subscribers/977133)
**Author:** [@Knighted\_Vorpal\_Sword](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knighted_Vorpal_Sword)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2022, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-new-yorker-subscribers/977133 "2022-12-29T14:40:36Z")
For those among us who subscribe to the New Yorker: how do you read them? Are you able to read an entire magazine on a weekly basis? My wife had two longish sojourns in the States, and rather than pay the insane cover pr… --- ## [Is there any good way to read articles of online magazines w/o subscription?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-good-way-to-read-articles-of-online-magazines-w-o-subscription/972573)
**Author:** [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [October 3, 2022, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-good-way-to-read-articles-of-online-magazines-w-o-subscription/972573 "2022-10-03T20:35:33Z")
So once again, an interesting article crops up somewhere on my feed, and I click… Only to find myself faced with a notice that I’ve exhausted my free articles for the month/year/whatever, but not to worry because luckily… --- ## [Heavy Metal (magazine)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heavy-metal-magazine/960388)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2022, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heavy-metal-magazine/960388 "2022-03-04T17:09:06Z")
Somewhere in the depths of my storage unit I have a collection of Heavy Metal magazines, from Issue 1 to… sometime in the late-'80s? Early- to mid-'90s? I had a subscription until they changed their format and I lost i…