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DiscountDelight - The Atlantic
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Manufacturer: The Atlantic Monthly
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Binding: Magazine
First Issue Lead Time: 6-10
Format: Magazine Subscription
Issues Per Year: 10
Label: The Atlantic Monthly
Magazine Type: Consumer magazine
Manufacturer: The Atlantic Monthly
Number Of Issues: 10
Publisher: The Atlantic Monthly
Studio: The Atlantic Monthly
Subscription Length: 365
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Summary: The decline of a once great magazine
Comment: Was a subsciber for many years mainly due to extremely balanced reporting, indepth coverage, etc. Then, starting about 1-2 years ago, the magazine started to take a "left" tilt. (I do not consider myself "right wing", am registered as an independant, but do like fair balanced coverage in my news) Since the beginning of this decline, the Atlantic has become more and more just another liberal magazine. The bias has also led, as it always does, to less in-depth reporting, since they tend to now ignore any aspect of an issue that does not support the left bent.
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Summary: Obsessed with military issues
Comment: The Atlantic is still a fine magazine but it is obsesses with the military, war, tedious politicians, etc. They seem to have become fixated on these issues - including Washington politics - to the neglect of broader literary, social, scientific questions. Just look at the May 2006 issue - its packed with more on Iraq, Iran, Chavez etc. Its just giving us the same news that the NY Times and Washigton Post do. So, what's the point in subscribing? I'm seriously considering not renewing when my current subscription expires. Its too much of the same to bother reading most of it. The Economist is a better read for these topics.
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Summary: Still one of the best
Comment: My sense is that 'The Atlantic' is a less literary magazine than it used to be. My sense is also that since the loss of Michael Kelly , a courageous and wise journalist, the magazine has declined in quality.
The 'Atlantic' does however provide some of the best 'high- brow journalism' being done today. Its decision to send Bernard Henri- Levy in the footsteps of DeToscqueville may not have led to a second great classic by a foreigner about America but did provide some interesting European perceptions - and a reaffirmed sense of what is special about the United States.
The 'Atlantic' is still one of the very best popular intellecual magazines in America.
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Summary: Once great visionary publication now an also-ran
Comment: The "Atlantic" Monthly used to tower above other news/feature journals with the quality and balance and depth and breadth of its reporting. Since the death of Editor-at-large Michael Kelly in Iraq, this magazine has declined terribly and swiftly.
Now, it is just one more liberal publication that trots out the talking points of the Democratic party. How sad! Once upon a time, even its more liberal reporting was still fair and well-reported. Now, the quality is very spotty. At times, "Atlantic" can still hit a home run. But, there have been far too many strike outs of late.
What once was unique and worth a look is now just another run-of-the-mill monthly that could easily get lost in the swamp of liberal apologist rags.
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Summary: not what I expected
Comment: I was under the impression that this was a literary magazine that would be full of fiction, short stories, essays, book reviews, and literary criticism. Instead I received a magazine that discusses political issues. Does the magazine know what it wants to be? They recently released a special fiction issue on the newsstands. Why would they if they're becoming a political magazine? Do they want to be a news/political magazines such as Time, U.S. News & World Report, and Newsweek or do they want to be a literary magazine?
They're doing a poor job of establishing themselves and drawing the line of what they want to be. I regret subscribing because I felt mislead. Of course for The Atlantic staff, turning the magazine into a political direction will probably bring them more sales. I don't think that reading and literary magazines are dead by any means but the format needs to be revamped so that people will want to read it.
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Formerly called the Atlantic. Features articles for the general reader, reports and comments on recent events in history, humor, fiction, poetry, arts and leisure, and book reviews.
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