Tuesday 13 October 2009

Review on Kerrang article





  • This article is from a media magazine and is written by Stephen Hill. It is an interview with Stuart Williams. I will be taking specific quotes out of the article and commenting them.

  • "Kerrang! is very much written by the fans for the fans." this quote from the interview shows how kerrang have used the audiences responses to previous magazines in order to make the magazine likeable by the "average reader". With Websites such as myspace it makes it easier for magazines like Kerrang to get feedback from the fans on which articles and stories they would like to see more.

  • "You never patronise your readers. You ca debate something but you don't slag off something you know people have come to the magazine to read about." This quote shows how kerrang use specific writing tecniques to draw certain people to the magazine. They make sure they don't "slag off" idles and celebritys who people want to see do well in their career and inturn creates a much more happy audience for this magazine.
  • I think that until recently "kerrang!'s role has been about educationg and informing and passing the knowledge on to the next generation. Undoubtedly what you have found in the last 18 months to two years is that everybody knows more about music." This shows how much more people are getting general knowledge about history of music from the media and less from magazines. The younger generations use the internet and watch TV

1 comment:

  1. Yes...but I'd be interested in more of your own views on this especially the use of non-traditional ways of finding out about audience. Do you think this is useful?

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