Well, it doesn't help you, but supporting independent online "magazines" give you much more quality articles than in the good old days. I support "The Pod", a

Well, it doesn't help you, but supporting independent online "magazines" give you much more quality articles than in the good old days. I support "The Pod", a german-based video- and computer game podcast. The quality is beyond everything I had in the years before and I bought magazines since the mid 80s. I am pretty sure there are far more magazines/podcasts/blogs which work with just supporting readers, but you have to find them.