I do like when celebrities do great inspiring things such as
donate lots of money or adopt poor starving children and occasionally reading
about that in a magazine. However, I can't stand when that same celebrity, or
any other celebrity for that matter, has their photo plastered on a magazine
cover which is airbrushed and edited to the limit with facts or questions about
them that aren't remotely important or at the least entertaining. Then, the
insides of some of these magazines have private photos of the same people taken
by hidden paparazzi while the celebrities are out walking their dog or spending
the day with their children unexpectedly and without their consent. Any page
that doesn’t contain a fake or personal photo with some odd lame facts about
the celebrities is strewed with ads. Ads are one of the main reasons I don’t
read magazines as I like to skip ads like I do with television, but there no
channels to change, but rather pages to turn though I tend to not enjoy what’s
on that next page.
The problem is that they are the main magazines in the checkout
lines. Sure, you’ll see a stray educational or productive magazine such as National
Geographic or Better Homes and Gardens, but the gist are focused on celebrities
and athletes. Those magazines give false beliefs to people from the cover
alone, that everyone should look this way, perfect, and perfection does not exist,
which is why a computer is used to make them look this way. Makes sense why
they place it right next to the candy, because it is precisely that, candy, eye
candy, and you are forced to see them due to the fact that they are near the
exit. Yet, all you have to do is see them and skim over the pages unlike mouth
candy therefore there is no reason to buy them.
