Sunday, April 26, 2009
Trashy magazines
I'm flying to Adelaide at the moment and reading a trashy women's magazine over my wife's shoulder. I would say that 85% of the articles are about women with babies. There are pictures of Elle Macpherson's kids (and a gratuitous semi-clothed picture of the former supermodel, which is what attracted my attention in the first place), a story about an Australian news reader with post partem depression that wanted "crush her daughter's skull" with a silver Tiffany's clock (very descriptive, I thought...love the specificity in the writing) and the expose of the 2 months pregant girl who was skydiving when her parachute didn't open and survived the crash. The lesson here for aspiring journalists, add a reference to a baby in any story and you quadruple the interest of trashy women's magazines.
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