Magazines in the checkout line: Airbrush much?

When standing in the checkout line at the grocery store you are bombarded with magazines of all types.  They range from the National Enquirer to Weight Watchers.  You can find almost anything that you want.  There are magazine telling you about the latest fad diet or diet pill or how this celebrity or that celebrity lost weight fast. It seems like you can catch up on the latest gossip.  Who's sleeping with who, who's engaged to who, who is breaking up with who, and how long their marriage last.  Do celebrities have any privacy?  Evidently not.  Are the stories true?  Probably not totally.  It seems like editors will do anything that they have to to get a story and sell their magazine.  I feel like everyone has a right to privacy especially when they are going through hard times.  And if you are going to report on a story please make it real and truthful. 

The National Enquirer has always jumped out at me.  I think because their headlines are so bizarre.  I can't believe that the editors think that people believe this stuff.  But yet the magazine sells.  I don't buy it or the magazine.   If you go to this link you can find some of these stories and how rude, twisted or bizarre they are. http://www.nationalenquirer.com/

I do subscribe to Weight Watchers magazine.  I feel that the magazine is helpful in my weight loss because I can go to it for recipes and it supports what I am learning at my Weight Watcher's meetings.  You don't find fad diets or the latest weight loss pill, what you will find is support on techniques that will help your weight loss efforts.  This is the kind of articles you find in Weight Watcher's Magazine.

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I found it funny, I was walking through the store just the other day and a child and her grandmother were shopping.  The child had a magazine in her hand showing it to her grandmother.  I over heard her grandmothers saying, "You can't believe everything you read on the cover of a magazine, they will print anything to get you to buy it."  How true.

Evidently this is the kind of stuff that draw people in because this is what they are continuing to print and it seems to be selling.  I try not to be drawn in to the hype and when I do read an article I will use common sense and prior knowledge to dicipher it.