What Are The Disadvantages Of Magazines?

A magazine is a publication consisting of pictures, articles and stories and are aimed at a particular target audience e.g Economist is targeted at businessmen and the magazine 'young times' is targeted at teenagers or youth. Magazine depending on the category they fall in have both advantages and disadvantages. The biggest advantage by far is definitely the provision of information and entertainment. Disadvantages include:

• It is much more time consuming to look for information in a magazine;
• Most magazines, especially fashion magazines display indecent or provocative images that can corrupt the mind of the readers;
• Magazines can give bias information depending on which media group it belongs to and how much government control that media group has; and
  
• Entertainment magazines are at times just a waste of time as they might not provide relevant information