Magazine Monday

There are many types of mass communication. One of them is magazines. We learned about this Thursday. I decided to talk about it today and give it a cool and clever name.

• ·         Magazines and newspapers- The difference is the magazines are made from better paper and they have more content. Magazines are made to last a long time and newspapers not so much.
• ·         Photojournalism- Magazines have been doing this for years and it was started by national geographic printing pictures the government had for public record. It was till around 24 years ago that newspapers starting to do it. Magazines are better at it because they have been doing it longer and have a better understatement of what they are doing.
• ·         Personality profiles-This an interview but not just one person, but yet it is about one person. It was a kind if start to celebrities. They would ask you question about yourself and then ask your friends and family the same questions. This is something magazines started doing before others.
• ·         Key features- This includes 1st national medium, national audience- it went to everyone in the US wasn't only certain people, national identity- This means we started to look at Americans and go oh we can do that! Oh this American is a great writer, National advertising- This means that you could sell to America not just the town you live in.
• ·         Postal Act of 1879- This is the act that made it so that people could send out a pound of magazines for a penny. This is thanks to the government. Magazines can't take credit for it. But it was the government subsidizing magazines.  This made magazines cheaper.
• ·         Long forum journalism- Magazines were the first mass communication to have stories that were long and detailed.  It was investigating journalism,
• ·         Demassification- This happened when radios and TV. came along. People went to the more technology advanced things. It might have been cheaper and more than just the US that you could get to.

I enjoyed learning about magazines. I myself read magazines and when you know the history you think so much about what you are reading the steps it went through to become what it is in your hands. I liked this lecture; I personally think that we should talk more about format of magazines. It seems like something would give you more of a wow that is a change from then and now.