As far as the Insider goes, that magazine has been shit for years. When it first started in 1995 it was awesome, and into Episode I it was pretty cool too; they changed publishers in 2002 and it took a serious dive and I stopped reading it, but at least it was the only official source of info regarding the new films. Not only did it continue to slide in quality, but now that theres no new films whats the point? When it first started it had interviews with Hamill and the guy who played Red Leader, it had a report on the Lost Cut, it had Anthony Daniels Wonder Column, it had a lot of good features--the stuff on the new action figures, comics and conventions was in there but only as small, filler columns. Now its pretty much all there is, unless you want to know about some crappy prequel cross-section schematic. Whatever.
Star Wars fandom has become serious stupid since the prequels, and its really pushing me away. I had absolutely zero interest in C4 and you would think that its something fans should be interested in. But 100,000 nerds in stromtrooper costumes eager for footage from some new shitty computer game, a DVD screening of the fucked-up SE's and the PT, and a half-hearted panel with Rick McCallum isn't exactly thrilling. I was surprised to see that Lucas showed up but it was more of a courtesy "thank you and goodbye".