Reading Response #8

This week’s reading response is on an article written by David Carr and published in the business section of the New York Times in two thousand and three. The argument that Carr is making is the lack of racial diversity on magazine covers. It does not surprise me in the least that someone wrote an article complaining about this. There is never a lack of something to complain about. Does it matter that the article appeared in the business section instead of the front page or lifestyle section? No it doesn’t matter to me at all. I think they did that because the decision to put whatever race on the cover of a magazine is purely a business move. Whatever is going to sell the magazine is what they will put on it or in it. This is definitely not front page news. I don’t think the lifestyle section is a good fit either, but that is my opinion. I really don’t care about the why or why not. I don’t read and never will read any of the magazines mentioned in this article. The only magazines I read are automotive types and not the trashy ones with mostly naked women on the front. I do not understand why people read most of that garbage anyway. I’ve never heard of most of the people they mentioned as putting on the front cover. I guess I live in my own little world. I don’t want to read about whatever celebrity is doing this week. For the question about the article being framed differently for a different section of the newspaper, I don’t know exactly what they mean by that so I cannot answer the question.