Cosmo, Sports Ill.,& Playboy
Word of mouth often spreads exaggerations and misconceptions. As a responsible consumer society, it is important for us to weed out fact from fantasy and make educated decisions about the products and media (in this case magazines) that we expose ourselves to. I, myself, found that the preconceptions I held about Playboy were largely inaccurate, and upon closer speculation of magazines I've seen before, Cosmo and the Swimsuit Edition of Sports Illustrated I have realized certain errors in my way of thinking. Though not exactly a "family magazine", Playboy is not the hard-core pornography magazine that it is unfairly recognized as by ignorant millions. Pictures of nude models do not fill every page, and when they do appear, they are not positioned or accesorized in any kind of sultry or overly seductive manner. Usually upright,
And what about the Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit Edition? More a pictorial than a sports magazine, it is almost a wonder why it's shelved with current news on golf and basketball. Beautiful models monopolize the pages, and the sparse articles are difficult to find. They have nothing to do with the illustrations that they are matched with, and from them alone it becomes evident that this magazine is not purchased for the words. Produced to sell based on sex appeal, it can be categorized as a mild form of pornography. The advertisements are the connecting forces that tie all three magazines together, as they are, for the most part, similar in content and technique. Though the magazines don't produce the ads (merely make deals with advertising companies) they serve to remind us that all three magazines are a part of the vast cons
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Approximate Word count = 560
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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