Chapter Nine Reaction
I did not know that magazines existed during colonial times. For some reason, I had the notion that during that era, only newspapers existed as a constant publication. It was interesting to read that people like George Washington and Alexander Hamilton wrote for magazines. It also got me thinking. I already knew about Thomas Paine's pamphlet, Common Sense; however, I did not know that it counted as a magazine. I wonder what the criteria or qualifications a printed material has to have in order to e considered a magazine.It was interesting to find out that Readers Digest as well as TV Guide are both over fifty years old. They seem as if they are two of the best known magazines of this century, and to find out how they have aged was very interesting. Similarly, I did not know that Playboy is over fifty years old as well. I also did not know that Marilyn Monroe was the first Playboy model. It was kind of funny to read that women consumers are a lucrative market. Magazines fifty years ago kind of remind me of soap operas for the current day household wife. Similarly, it was amusing to read the differences between magazines that women like to those that men enjoy. Men like magazines like Playboy while women are the main consumers for magazines like Good Housekeeping.
Finding out that National Geographic is over one hundred years old, it started in 1888, was very interesting.
It's crazy to think that out of the 800-1000 magazines that start per year, only 200 will survive even a year. The numbers for magazines are crazy! I did not know that that many magazines started, or that so few survive. It stinks that magazines define their readers merely as viewers of displayed products and consumers, rather than making the magazine about informing the readers. Especially considering the freedom that magazines get compared to other publications, and the not-as-important deadlines. It's kind of sad.
Vocabulary :
1. magazine: a nondaily periodical that comprises a collection of articles, stories, and ads
2. muckraking: a style of early-twentieth-century investigative journalism that referred to reporters who were willing to crawl around in society's much to uncover a story
3. general-interst magazines: a type of magazine that addresses a wide variety of topics and is aimed at a broad national audience
4. photojournalism: the use of photos to document events and people's lives
5. pass-along readership: the total number of people who come into contact with a single copy of a magazine
6. regional editions: national magazines whose content is tailored to the interests of different geographic areas
7. split-run editions: editions of national magazine that tailor ads to different geographical areas
8. ink-jet imaging: a computer technique that enables a magazine publisher or advertiser to print personalized messages to individual subscribers
9. demographic editions: national magazines whose advertising is tailored to subscribers and readers according to occupation, class, and zip-code address
10. supermarket tabloids: newspapers that feature bizarre human-interest stories, gruesome murder tales, violent accident accounts, unexplained phenomena stories, and malicious celebrity gossip
11. Webzines: magazines that publish on the World Wide Web
12. desktop publishing: a computer technology that enables an aspiring publisher-editor to inexpensively write, design, lay out, and even print a small newsletter or magazine
13. zines: self-published magazines produced on personal computer programs or on the Internet
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