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On the Downside
Scientific American is how I've been keeping up on current science, but I'm so fed up with party-line bad-science environmentalism and political correctness that I've come to see Sci-Am as one of the symptoms of the decline of American science. I still learn a lot, especially in the non-politicized hard sciences, but I wish someone would point me to a science magazine with Sci-Am's rigor and broad range, but with more of a commitment to scientific dispassionateness.
TV Guide and Time still come to our house every week, both for the information they contain, not because they have anything intelligent to say. Does anybody else remember when TV Guide was a place for genuine information and ideas about television? It's never recovered from the trash infusion it got when Rupert Murdoch took it over. As for Time, they usually get their facts right, but their analyses are so empty, shallow, on-the-one-hand, and obviously slanted that often I skip the magazine entirely just to avoid being angry at how stupid they think the American people are. Unless, of course, they don't realize how stupid their analyses are, in which case Time's reporters need a remedial course in how to analyze stories at a level slightly deeper than the press release, the newsroom chat, and vaguely remember ideas from college.
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