So, I spied the October 2021 issue of "Travel + Leisure" magazine laying around on a table. I thought it might be entertaining to look for symbolism in a travel magazine with vacation spots that only the DS could afford to actually go to. I made it to page 25 where I found a glowing homage to Anthony Bourdain. I guess some of the DS must be missing him after he was suicided:
https://goodizen.com/anthony-bourdains-death-is-no-suicide-its-a-mossad-murder/
Got to page 28 where there is a happy little article commemorating Disneyworld's 50th anniversary. There's a two-page drawing of the Magic (I bet!) Kingdom where one of the Seven Dwarfs is wearing an Epstein-Island, blue-and-white-striped outfit. Mickey Mouse is dressed in what appears to be a spacesuit with rainbows on it. Hail Disney, with the 666 that is spelled out in his signature.
On page 33, American Express has an advertisement for their credit card showing two men holding hands on a beach.
On page 39, Disney is advertising cruises to their private island, Castaway Cay. I guess they had to find a new island after Little St. James got taken off the itinerary.
On page 56 is an article on New York's Finger Lakes and their Apple Cider producers. There's even a map of Hunter Biden's Finger Lakes on page 58.
And, finally, on page 147 there is a photo of an artist and his installation at the Hyde Park Art Center. He is seated in the photo....and wearing bright red shoes.
I found all of this in the space of less than ten minutes. Who knows what else is in there that I missed. :-/
Producing magazines is fairly expensive, so why not have the masses foot the bill through the advertising?
Advertising is about numbers. In the case of magazines, it's circulation numbers. Sell more mags, the ads have more value, get more advertising dollars.
The wealthy could afford to pay a $5000/yr for their favorite magazine, but they much prefer to have us subsidize the cost.
Our local newspaper used to be by subscription. It wasn't expensive, but when they were bought out by the liberal media giants (through some smaller front company), they turned liberal and no longer reflected the community. So we dropped it. A lot of other people must have too, because after a few years they started mailing it to everyone in town free of charge (and they ask for a donation subscription which we ignore).
There's probably enough ads to cover the cost of publishing and printing, but only if the paper reaches 80%-90% of households in the area. No circulation = no one willing to pay for ads. Since they need to push the liberal agenda, they are willing to mail it out for "free". So they don't make as much money, but I bet all the town/city papers in the area publish similar main stories, with enough local content (like HS sports) to tailor the paper to the city. You can get people to send in the local content. The schools will send in sports stories, the liberal busybodies are more than happy to write some liberal bullshit story - so the paper just needs one or two people to do a little editing and layout (about one third of that doesn't change), and then they are good to go.