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Magazines on the Newsstand for Mother's Day

Media city examine magazines that pay tribute to Moms everywhere for Mother's Day, while also comparing it to other weekly magazines on the newsstands today.

Parenting Magazine’s May issue presents an exciting mix of articles and encourages mommy's everywhere to cut themselves some slack in their day to day motherly callings.

Cookie Magazine also has an amazing cover story on dogooder moms. This mommy magazine highlights six mothers and their efforts to make the world a better place, including actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus and model Christie Brinkley. Cookie magazine also did a three page spread of high end     products for Mother’s Day.

Here’s another choice for mother’s day, Parents magazine. Parents magazine holds some of the best baby pictures, parenting advice, cooking recipes, and gives great information on health care products.

New York magazine has a reputation of obsessing over wealth, and when its not doing that the magazine turns its attention on politics and the city council.

At the top of the game,the New Yorker magazine shifts its attention on Dick Scruggs, the powerful tort lawyer who brought down big tobacco only to trapped in a small-time bribery scam.

Newsweek magazine centers its interests so much on political coverage that they make it easy for readers to turn the page with exhaustion or disgust. However, the magazine's Obama cover story on the “super liberal” strategy for tackling the Republic is quite interesting.

Last, but not least is Time magazine. The recent issue of Time magazine shows a sense of humor after declaring Obama the winner of the Democratic nomination. The magazine jokes by adding asterics at the bottom of the cover and texts that read “Really, we’re pretty sure this time.”

 

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Hearst's Seventeen Joins Jango

The nation's best selling monthly teen magazine Seventeen, has joined forces with Jango the fast-growing social music site. Hearst Magazines today announced a cross-promotional partnership to develop co-branded online music widgets for Seventeen.com, the website of Seventeen.

Jango lest users create personalized online radio stations based on their favorite artists. The site also features a social-networking element, enabling users to find like-minded music fans and share their favorite stations.

The widgets are to go live today on Seventeen.com and will be featured in the magazine's June issue (Hitting Newstands MAY 6).
 
Starting TODAY, May 5, Seventeen.com will offer Jango produced celebrity DJ jukeboxes, featuring summer music favorites of starting including Ashlee Simpson, American Idol winner Jordin Sparks, Rihanna and Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz. In addition to listening to star's favorite songs like Ashlee Simpson's recommendation of Michael Jackson's "Scream", fans can grab their favorite jukeboxes and post them on their MySpace.com and Facebook.com pages, as well as on RSS readers like iGoogle.

For Seventeen magazine and its site, the partnership allows the teen-focused property to tap into the growing popularity of social music on the Web, while using the viral power of widgets to extend its reach. "This application helps the Seventeen brand live beyond the pages of the magazine," said editor in chief Ann Shoket.

Magazine of The Day - Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated magazine is the largest weekly American Sports magazine owned by media conglomerate Time Warner.

Sports Illustrated was the first magazine with the circulation over one million to win the National Magazine Award for General Excellence twice.

Today Sports illustrated as its own website along with a swimsuit issue and also a Sports Illustrated for kids.  

This magazine is a fun, safe environment for kids, filled with some of the best sports information. This magazine is targeted towards kids and pre-teens up to 17 years old. The magazine's core value is to promote positive values, good sportsmanship and the fun of reading. Sports Illustrated for kids also has its own website that changes from day to day, with the goal of creating a fun, safe environment for kids, filled with news, games, and interactive features.

Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue was published since 1964 and is now an annual publishing event that generates its own television shows, videos, and calendars. The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue is published annually by sports Illustrated. This magazine features fashion models wearing swim wear in exotic locales.

In the 1930s and 1940s two other magazines named Sports
Illustrated magazine were started but they both failed quickly. Following these events, there was no large-base general sports magazine with a national following. It was then that TIME patriarch Henry Luce, who was not a sports fan, began considering whether his company should attempt to fill that gap. At this time, many people believed that sports was beneath the attention of serious journalism and didn't. think sports news could fill a weekly magazine.
 
After offering $200,00 in an unsuccessful bid to buy the name Sport for the new magazine, they acquired the right to the name Sports Illustrated instead for just $10,000. The goal of the new magazine was to be "not a sports magazine, but the sports magazine." The popularity of spectator sports in the United States was about to explode, and that popularity came to driven largely by three things : economic prosperity, television, and Sports Illustrated.

Today Sports Illustrated is one of the most popular men's magazine, this magazine has over 3 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week. 18 million men,19% of the adult males in the country read and subscribe to Sports Illustrated magazine.

Oops!... Paula, what exactly are you saying?

There is no one today that cannot recognize this sign or the words "American Idol". The ever popular show American Idol is a well known televised singing competition, which first began on June 11, 2002. I didn't even know it but American Idol also has its own magazine.The goal of American Idol is to discover the greatest young singer in the country through a series of nationwide auditions. The outcome of the later stages of this competition are determined by public voting by phone.

However I think must of us really watch American Idol for its hilarious audition tapes, the "dog" comments by Randy Jackson, the steady arguments with Ryan Seacrest and Simon Cowell, and oh yeah...! and for Paula Abdul.

American idol would not be "American Idol" without a Paula Abdul scandal.
Just when it seemed the seventh season might go by unscathed, along came Paula. Tuesday's telecast Paula made fairly good comments about a performance clearly no one else saw but her, and that is because IT NEVER HAPPENED!

The Incident occurred during Tuesday's show when the judges were asked to comment on the five remaining performers after they sang the first of their two songs. Abdul commenting on Jason Castro, started referring to his second song- but wait! he's only sung once.

    "The two songs, made me feel like you're not fighting         hard enough to get into the top four." she said.

    "It was an honest mistake," Ryan Seacrest said. "Frankly, you were thrown         a curve ball."

The audience began to laugh while fellow judge Simon Cowell shook his head and Randy Jackson tried to stop her, Paula claimed she was confused by her notes on the performances. Fox officials refused to comment on the situation yesterday but fans everywhere were burning up online message boards with all sorts of speculation.

My first question would be, IS AMERICAN IDOL SCAMMING IT'S VIEWERS? ARE WE ALL WASTING OUR TIME TO VOTE? IS AMERICAN IDOL A PLANNED OUT SHOW?

However, Paula and host Ryan Seacrest blamed her jaw-dropping moment on producers making format changes while the show was airing. Originally the judges were asked to hold their thoughts until the five contestant performed but then last minute the producer told them "We're going to change it up again and have you guys critique them on round one."

Confusing right? well that is was Abdul said she also attributed her second-song comments to seeing a bit of Castro's dress rehearsal performance.

American Idol fans are all awaiting the results from Tuesday night and many are waiting to see how the show handles the Paula mess up."Well I guess we're all just going to have to wait and see how the show addresses this controversy tonight and beyond" a fan says on the fox Idol site.

Magazine Of The Day: Mens Journal

Men's Journal magazine really gets down to what matters when you want to enjoy yourself. Whether it be sports (playing, not watching), travel, exercise or any sort of adventure, Men's Journal has got tips that will help you out.

The latest issue covers a story about heli-skiing. An (expensive) activity in which skiers fly to the top of a mountain and ski down. Sounds all good and fine until the environmentalists come into the picture. They accuse the pilot, who profits from each run, of "degrading fragile wilderness," a serious federal crime. Honestly, is it anywhere in the scope of reason to think that flattening a bit of snow and snapping a few twigs is bad for the environment? If so, lets make deer illegal too, they eat all the plants!

Men's journal doesn't seem to take a stance on the issue but rather seems to remain neutral. That is quite respectable for a glossy publication, as most seem to love to put their spin on the issues.

I will always submit some information about the Magazine of the Day, so if it suits you, read below to familiarize yourself with some factual information that you may not have known before.

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More About Men's Journal: In 1992, Men’s Journal was launched by Men’s Journal LLC as a part of Wenner Media. Other publications by Wenner Media include Rolling Stone. Men’s Journal is a lifestyle magazine,travel, style, health, fitness, and sports. Articles are thorough and filled with advice to improve your mind, body, and soul. Read articles on how to improve your performance to the highest level, with articles on nutrition and outdoor activities. The “gear guide” will help you to stay in style from clothes to shoes to technology. Let Men’s Journal be your travel agent with road trip ideas geared for adventure. Read in-depth articles on today’s most celebrated athletes. Readers might also enjoy Men’s Health, Maxim, and Sports Illustrated geared towards helping men live a very adventurous life. With a general interest focus, you will find articles on adventure, .

Shut up about Miley Cyrus.

The more you talk, the worse you make it.
Honestly, the photographs taken of her were a bit racy for a teenager, and yes, not all of us would like to see such a thing, but the more we talk about, the more the media will shove it down our throats. Now, one may think that even writing this is hypocritical. Well it is, but some things must be said. I'm not even going to post the picture here. I'm not going to feed into it.

In today's day and age everything is so politically correct it sickens the mind.  Not one sliver of art can be published without an outcry from one group or another. Vanity Fair magazine did do something controversial, but certainly wasn't pornography. Although television shows like Entertainment Tonight would have you believe it was.

Vanity Fair was just trying to make money, and although people view that as a bad thing for some reason, isn't that what we're all trying to do here? All in all Vanity Fair has come under fire for something, probably because the entertainment "news" shows had nothing else to talk about.

Google for the image, and don't worry, its work-safe. Its really not in poor taste and seems to have a bit of photoshopping done. Hell, would anyone have known the difference if someone had simply edited out the straps of a top? I think not, and the media firestorm would be no different either.

All in all, no one should be apologizing, this is America, the land of the free (home of the brave).  If you cant handle something that bothers you, remember that you have the power to ignore it, but you don't have the power to limit the first amendment rights of another. Keep America free, and Vanity Fair, keep up the controversy, its good for the nation!

Magazine Launches for 2008 are Somewhat Promising?

Thanks to MrMagazine.com for this intuitive article about the rise of new magazines (for 2008)...

The first quarter of 2008 marked an increase of five titles compared to those introduced of 2007. I'm baffled how a struggling economy, let alone one that is moving their interest towards online media rather paper media could start printing out new magazine titles.

Some interesting facts:

1. In 2005 - 1,013 new magazines launched
2. In 2006 - 901 new magazines launched
3. In 2007 - 715 new magazines launched
4. In 2008 - We shall see...keep your fingers crossed...

Some more interesting facts:

January-March – 150 total magazines

January – 42 magazines (14 published 4x or more):
6 quarterly
5 bimonthly
2 monthly
1 10x
28 special

February – 52 magazines (16 published 4x or more):
10 quarterly
2 bimonthly
2 monthly
1 9x
1 10x
1 bi-annual
3 annual
32 special

March – 56 magazines (11 published 4x or more):
9 quarterly
2 monthly
5 annual
40 special

It's apparent that magazines are in no way, shape, or form seeing extinction but apparently, the world is spinning towards a semi-paperless world.

Don't worry, you'll always have toilet paper :)

Is Time Magazine Begging For Attention?

Time being one of the major weekly publications could be headed down a slow path of decline. For the second week in a row, Time Magazine managing editor Rick Stengel has managed to get people to not only notice the magazine but also have them buzzing around talking about it. 

Last week, it was the April 28 issue cover that featured a 1945 photo of marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima to portray the struggle to end  global warning, a decision that infuriated                                         some veterans.

This week's issue of Time magazine has brought another eyebrow raising cover that copied the split-screen concept (of competing players) and tag line of the three-week-old NBA playoffs campaign to illustrate the ongoing battle for the Democratic presidential nomination. The cover features a split-screen image of presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Stengel who is a huge basketball fan thought the playoffs campaign concept would inject some freshness into coverage of the political campaign season. Stengel basically wanted to release some stress from the political process that is prone to cause voter fatigue.

Stengel admitted the cover choice, which appears on the May 5 issue, wasn't without controversy. "We talk about it internally, and there were people for and against it. But the amount of smiles around the room outweighed the frowns," he said.

Stengel describes this week's cover as "powerful and striking"

Stengel who is coming up on his two-year anniversary as managing editor in July, states that he sees compelling and striking covers as a way to hook new readers, but conceded that it's hard to know if his efforts have helped newsstand sales. "To me, the benefit is, you get people talking about it, writing about it," he said.

Murdoch Easily Snatches Newsday

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Here's great news! The rich and famous owner of News Corp Rupert Murdoch has his eyes and his hands on Newsday. News Corp is the world's largest media conglomerate company by market capitalization, Rupert Murdoch being the company's Chairman and Chief executive officer.

There are rumors going around that Murdoch is planning to buy another New York media property, in addition to the many others he own (New York Post, Wall Street Journal).

In this crazy world of media regulation, there is nothing that federal regulators can do to stop Murdoch or any other media baron from owning a TV station and also buying a newspaper in the same market.

The FCC has no power when it comes to reviewing Murdoch's bid to purchase Newsday in advance. But there is also a turn around, when it comes time for the TV stations in that area to get a license renewal the panel does have every right to question if Murdoch's purchase of the paper is in the interest of the public.

There are those who encourage Murdoch's purchase and there are some who oppose either because they fear Murdoch himself or they fear an increasingly consolidated media market. Well for those who do fear, fear no more for last year, News Corp renewed its license to operate TV outlets WNEW and WWOR.

Murdoch has already managed a number of waivers in the area.
Murdoch's waiver to own WWOR and the New York Post and, in effect, WNEW, expires at the end of the year. That waiver might or might not have to be renewed depending on the legal status of the new ownership rules that were approved last year by the FCC, which allows one person or company to own both a newspaper and a TV station in the top 20 markets.

In order for News Corp to purchase Newsday they might have to sell something or they would need a waiver. Or would they? according to the rule a broadcast baron can buy a newspaper. There is also question on what market is served by the different media properties. Also, Tribune Co. who owns Newsday and News Corp is experiences legal challenges because of the new rule.

Depending on how far News Corp is willing to take this, if the FCC disapproves, Murdoch can then take it to an ALJ (Administrative Law Jude) hearing, if that fails the deal would be reviewed by the commission, from there straight to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

What a mission! This could end up at the supreme court!