Magazine Advertisement

When I am standing in line waiting to check out, I can't help but notice all the magazines there. I will pick one up and thumb through it and see if something jumps out at me. Most of the time I look for the article that they were talking about on the cover of the magazine. While looking for that article you can always see many ads for makeup, perfume, clothes, movies, and etc.

There is so many different magazines out there that each one has to try and top the other. Has to get the breaking story to be able to sell their magazine. Sometimes it makes me wounder if what they put out there is true or a little fabricated. I know you have the gossip magazines that say so and so was caught cheating with so and so. Or a movie star was caught drinking in public and getting in fights. It seems all you hear is the negative in alot of magazine cover stories, instead of the good that they have done. Or you only hear one side of the story. So can you always believe what you read? I think not.

One magazine that comes to mind that likes to go for the wow factor is TIME magazine. Remember the add with the mother still breast feeding the toddler. That was something, I couldn't believe it when I saw it. It just made me think, wow they will do a story on anything that will sell issues. Plus, how could that mother do an article on that. It reminded me of a Jerry Springer show. But it did make them money since people couldn't believe a mother would do that. Plus she got air time on T.V. and as they say, had her 15 minutes of fame.

Magazines are good for advertisements. Some may think that is a famous person uses the product, drives the product, wears the product, and ect. That the product must work and will go out and buy the product before they know anything about it. That is the down side. Products doesn't work the same for everyone. I have gone out and tried things just because I see that it has worked for someone else and figure if it works there then it should work for me. Not the case, I have wasted alot of money on those products and used them once or twice and then they collect dust on the shelf or in the drawer. I guess we the consumers need to better educate ourselves before we go out and buy things that we don't know alot about.