Why Get Ink on Your Fingers?

Before too long, it will rare for people to have to newspaper delivered to their homes. With the steady increase of computers and the unlimited amount of information that can be found on the internet, the paper seems pointless. As I flip through The Baltimore Sun, I find my self wondering if I could simply find all this information on the internet. I mean, that way I wouldn’t risk getting ink all over my fingers then worrying if I rubbed it on my face. Besides that, almost everything has an easily accessed website (http://www.baltimoresun.com/) so why waste the time and money, flipping through the pages of something that is right at your finger tips.

When I looked up the website, I found all of the information I had just skimmed through, minus the full pages ads for new phones or cars. Every piece of news was right before my eyes separated into specific categories. If I wanted breaking news, it’s flashing right on the home page in red. If something happened after my paper was delivered, I wouldn’t find out about it until tomorrow. Hopefully, it’s nothing like crazed man stalking the streets of my neighborhood and the police are telling everyone to stay indoors, but I’m out walking because I won’t get an update until the next day when I get my paper.

The internet is also more favorable because you can choose from pictures, videos, or just articles depending on what I’m looking for. I feel like this gives more of a variety about how to look at the information presented to me. Call me lazy, but I find it easier to type in what I’m looking for in the small search bar in the upper right corner than flipping through all the different sections of the newspaper. I’m always scared I’m going to loose a section of the paper and then not be able to find what I’m looking for.

I also found the weekly rates for the paper and how many times a week they offer to deliver. Again, unless you want to pay $3.50 a week for the seven day delivery, you won’t have your news everyday. If you simply look up the website, you don’t have to pay about $14.00 a week for your paper. So honestly, why would you pay for your print newspaper? I mean as long as you have internet access whether it is in your home or at a library, you can find the same information that is printed in the paper right on your screen. 

Men and Women Magazines

When it comes to men and women magazines, the images and articles are quite different. Picture perfect is an appropriate phrase when it comes to the women on the front covers. These women are so airbrushed that you might as well use a computer generated model on the front instead. Unless it’s a magazine on health and fitness, there isn’t too much concern on how in shape the guy is because if he isn’t up to the physical standards they simply put a shirt on him. He isn’t pressured into crash dieting or hitting the gym relentlessly in order to squeeze into an unrealistically small bikini in order to make it on the front cover.

                The articles that go along with women magazines tend to focus on appearance. They offer tips like how to make your skin look younger or what to wear to make you look thinner. Magazines push women to strive towards unrealistic goals when it comes to appearance. I mean older women shouldn’t have to worry about how young their skin looks and disguise their age. Why is that something to be ashamed of? And girls in their twenties and thirties and maybe even younger shouldn’t have to fear looking at a scale or count calories. Talk about a pain and a waste. I think that magazine supply random insecurities to women and girls when they look at their covers. They promote articles like how to make your pores smaller. Then that gets you thinking things like, “Crap I have to worry about pore size now?” or “What’s considered large pores and have I been walking around looking like an idiot with huge pores?” In reality, who looks at your pores and who is getting close enough to look at your pores? Better yet, who cares? Guys are not worried about how big or small your pores are or which hair styles fit your facial structure.

Magazines push women in girls into worrying about ridiculous beauty ideas while male magazines focus on which video game is the must have of the week. It’s an unfair inequality and I feel that magazines really push these unrealistic expectations