The market that the Times caters for is the homogenized American middle class (at least the issue printed in the US). Since most people in America considers themselves to be middle class this give the Times a large clientele. The commercial nature of the venture prevents the magazine from publishing real news and issues instead it quite happily churns out sensational stories bordering on the tabloid, which readers seem to gobble up in delight. The content can be attributed to the l

aws of demand and supply. It seems that that people have no real desire to be informed. This probably because the average person does not aspire to be anything but middle class. A common trait of the middle classes in general is to try to climb up the social ladder and a good way to do this is to sound and be informed or to at least pretend but this is not true for the American middle class. It revels in its mainstream appeal and it's ignorance. Even people who should be considered upper class prefer!

Monday, September 27, 1999

Times is not a serious news magazine and to its credit it does not claim to be. A person that is really serious about knowing what is happening in the world will probably glance through it but will or should go somewhere else for their news.

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Approximate Word count = 575
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)