Magazines

When we began the lecture on magazines, I thought that it would be similar to the newspaper lecture in that there would be lots of dates and facts. I was surprised at how much I didn't know about magazines and found the lecture very interesting and intriguing. The most interesting thing that I learned was that magazines were the first national medium in form of mass communication. I didn't realize how much more impactful magazines had the power to be in contrast to newspapers during the same time period, especially after the innovation of photojournalism. The amount of power that they had from seemly simple innovations to intrigue larger audiences, fascinated me.
When magazines began to use photojournalism, the audience they could reach grew rapidly. It allowed them to communicate news with alliterate and illiterate people through pictures. While magazines were using it to reach larger audiences as well as using the technological advances of printing to reach audiences nationwide, newspapers were still contained within cities and occasionally states.
Eventually, magazines had to demassify due to the spread of T.V. but at the height of its era, magazines were using new innovations to rule the world of mass communication.