Beneficiaries from a Magazine

All media texts have an economic purchase. I know I do not know everyone who benefits from a magazine but there certainly is a lot. Some of the beneficiaries are:

-Editors
-Models in the ads
-Brand names
-Actors/actress’ who are in the magazine
-Artists could benefit
-Photographers
-The publisher
-Advertisers – coupons/offers
-Writers
-Stores
-Paper company
-Lumber companies
-Stylists
-Software
-Camera companies
-Printing companies
-Transportation
-Distributor

And the list can still go on, if you just think in to every single little detail. Every time you look at an ad, a magazine, the creators and everyone behind it are making that much more money for you just looking at an ad. Stores will make a profit because when you look at the ad you may think it looks really nice and would want it, so you find out where the store is and you go and buy the outfit, shirt, or dress whatever it was you wanted, and automatically they made a profit, the actors/actress’ mad a profit, and everyone on the list above makes a profit.

Barbie Meets Her Muslim Match

Who created it and why?

New Boy created Fulla; they created it because Barbie was banned from most Middle East countries because of the clothing style and her clothing. This Barbie was created because this form fit into the cultural realities of the Arab world.

Do people want it?

Young girls in the Middle East must love Fulla because it is practically the same thing as Barbie over here and young girls love Barbie. You can buy Fulla cereal, Fulla bicycles, and also since Fulla’s clothes are appropriate over in the Middle East countries you can also buy live size clothes for girls.

What Facts or Statistics used?

In November of 2003 and October 2005, 1.5 million Fulla dolls were purchased. Fulla was outselling Barbie by a 40-to-1 margin in stores.

What do you think?

I think that the Fulla doll gives the Arab girls a doll in which fits their culture. I personally think that the Fulla doll was a smart investment because it gives the Barbie experience world wide, the Barbie doll is extremely popular in the U.S and now the Fulla doll is popular to Middle Eastern countries.

Work Cited

“Fulla Doll.” 6. October. 2007. Online Image. Tunisian Authorities Confiscate Dolls Wearing Hijab. 10. January. 2008

Dixie Chicks Stand Up!

We all remember the day when Natalie Maines said “we are ashamed that the president of the United States of America is from Texas.” They have gotten so much grief for saying that little sentence, but did Pink get that much grief when she wrote her song? Did Kanye get grief when he spoke out? Why was it only the Dixie Chicks who got all the grief?

Nobody has the write to go ahead and say that they are the dumbest bimbos and that they are foolish women, who deserved to be, slapped around especially media personalities. What ever happened to freedom of speech? She did not hurt anybody from saying what she said.

How could something that small that Natalie said push people so over the edge that they would send threats and boycott their songs, or boycott the radio stations that have been playing their songs.

Why didn’t Kanye’s statement back fire on him, his was more racial then Natalie’s, Natalie’s statement was nothing, but Kanye’s statement on how "George Bush doesn't care about black people," how would that not effect the world and how they looked at Kanye and what Natalie said “we are ashamed that the president of the united states comes from Texas,” now there is a big difference there!

Work Cited
"Dixie Chicks." 7. June. 2006. Online Image. Poor Dixie Chicks. 18. October. 2007