Remember the newspaper?

The newspaper is an extreamly important piece of our everyday life.  If you were to take a look at the Baltimore Sun then you would see alot of differnt stories from murder, schooling or even the weekly weather.  I believe that the newspaper is actually one of the things left in the world that is not bias, take a look at the paper...it is much differnt then the news on TV.  the differnce between the two is the paper just shows the actual information on what is recent and it does not use things to scare the audience into reading it.  the television uses flash and sex appeal and anything else it can use to get people to watch it.  I would say the audience for the newspaper is attracted to slightly older generation as a whole.......I am not saying that young people do not care about the paper I am justv saying I would rather watch the news then read it. It is cheap and people insist on buying it so I do not see something this old going away since the first paper was published in April 24th 1704 and it is now 2011.

Magazines

Yesterday I was at Mars Supermarket and happened to walk by the check out counter and see all of the magazines, I stopped and was reminded of the assignment so I stopped and began to stare at them.  What jumped out to me was the pictures of course on magazines such as cosmo and Maxim magazine because.....well who does not love hot girls?  then i began to read the headlines and i began to laugh a little.      I just find it funny that the population cares more about what perfume Katy Perry wears then anything else. women and men are portrayed in these magazines as the ideal person.  I can not remember the last magazine that i picked up and a regular looking person was on it, everyone looks like they just got done doing 1000 sit-ups.  I guess I am just wondering what the magazine wants us to think when we see the cover, are we suppose to feel like we should look like these people even when they have to be airbrushed to look like that? Are we suppose to feel bad about ourselves? Who knows? Either way I don't care cause the only thing I bought at Mars was a drink, so I am not giving into the Corporate advertising :)