Magazines are just purely one giant advertisement block. Hardly any magazines ever have anything even remotely educational, besides maybe, National Geographic and Newsweek. Apart from these two, there are just countless fashion magazines with 70% advertisments. I suppose if someone wants to buy perfume, they could look at a random page and have a good chance at finding an ad for it because there are a lot of perfume ads in fashion magazines. Overall, I just don't see magazines as a good source for information.
The only magazine I have ever bought, and will continue to ever buy, I only purchase once a year. I buy the August edition of Sports Illustrated just to get the Fantasy Football player rankings. I won't even look at anything else in the magazine. I like watching sports, not reading about the personal lives of the players. The same thing goes for celebrities - why do people care? I just don't understand how there can be people that need to have every bit of information about celebrities. People that have to follow them on Twitter to see what kind of toothpaste Lady Gaga uses, or something strange like that.
Newspapers and magazines are disappearing and it's probably because of the things mentioned above and the fact that newpapers are too boring. We have television and the Internet, now. A simple, bland piece of paper with color photos and blocks of text on it can't compete with television, where some actually talks to you. This requires no reading and people don't like to read. The Internet is way faster than a newspaper and allows someone to multi-task at the same time, providing better chances for entertainment whil gathering information. Honestly, I don't see the newspaper industry lasting much longer, at least in a physical form. They have newspapers available for the Kindle and Nook, now. That might be the future of newspapers.
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