Contrast of 2 News Magazines

This paper will compare and contrast two news magazines from the same week. The discussion will center on whether U.S. News & World Report and Time magazine differ in any significant respects. Moreover, the paper will examine whether the new editor of U.S. News & World Report, James Fallows, can make a difference in the reporting practices of the news magazine market. This analysis will include an overview of the types of news which each magazine covers and how much space both of these competing magazines devotes to national news, world news, advertising and features or popular stories and subject matter.

At first glance, the magazines, U.S. News & World Report and Time seem to be strikingly similar. For instance, both magazines devote their first three pages to advertisements from large multinational corporations. For Time, those advertisers are Mobil Corporation and Mercedes, for U.S. News & World Report, those advertisers are Delta Air Lines and Mass Mutual. Nevertheless, the new editor of U.S. News & World Report, claims that U.S. News & World Report has more "new that you can use," which implies that readers should buy U.S. News & World Report instead of Time.

Apparently, Mr. Fallows intends to apply his editorial ideas in a way that U.S. News & World Report will become the leader in the news magazine market. One of the ways that editor Fallows intends to make a significant difference in this mark

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shed to investigate shady campaign contributions. The article's heading concludes that "the scandal remains murky," which suggests a Republican party slant since the committee was formed to investigate contributions raised to fund the Democratic party's successful bid for the Presidential slot. In addition to the coverage of this hot political topic, a separate section called "Are You Breaking Campaign Laws?" takes an unusually hard view of Al Gore, concluding that "Al" made a "Bad Call" and that he should have been more careful about temple fund raisers. A closer look at this article shows that it is at best, political satire, and at worst, a low blow aimed at harming Al Gore's political future. The "quiz" has some jargon at the top which infers that Mr. Gore accepted a brown bag full of "suspicious money orders" which any layman would have known to turn down. This article goes beyond normal news reporting and in fact editorializes the dismantling of the Thompson committee and uses the political news to take a pot shot at the Democratic party. In this piece, U.S. News & World Report goes beyond normal news reporting and instead engages in partisan based political commentary and highly ironic political satire. Other art
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Approximate Word count = 4056
Approximate Pages = 16 (250 words per page)