Ok the first point that my interest when I read this chapter was the term magazine. I had no idea that the term magazine in french means "storehouse". This name suits the name magazine because it is a compiled storehouse of stories, article, and a variety of advertisements. However that definition I just gave suits the updated version of what the magazine became, but back in the day magazines were mostly used for politics and social reform.
Speaking of social reform the chapter mentions one group by the name of the Muckrackers. The muckrackers were a group that exposed the unfair practices of businesses and the corruption of the government (an example of govt corruption was at the time Great Britain). The book goes on to say that the age of muckrackness(my funny term) came to an end and started the beginning of photojournalism. The rise of photojournalism doesn't surprise me because honestly sometimes when I buy a magazine I don't read it, I just look at the pictures (because you know what they say a picture can speak a thousand words).
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