Pickled bats, Mars landings, robot birds (Focus)

Member Name: Theeagle

Product:	Focus
Date:	27/05/01 (165 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Great journalism

Disadvantages: Tries to tackle too many subjects

Focus is written with the intelligent general reader in mind. Less dense than, say, the New Scientist but far from lowbrow, I`ve been reading this magazine for some years now.

If anything Focus is a bit of a misnomer. It covers science and technology as well as history, geography, psychology, and anything else they feel like throwing in. What it doesn`t do is remain focused on any one subject. Unfocus would have been more accurate, although a title like that probably wouldn`t have sold as many copies.

At around 120 pages with few adverts it always takes me a few days to get through. The articles are usually well written and bring up vital issues that the TV and print news don`t have space for.

Summary: BBC took it over, now it's one big ad for Auntie.