Review of NME"Behind the line"

The article was written by Eva Wiseman, Observer music magazines, November 2008, I will be reviewing this magazine to understand what NME magazine think about the magazine industry.

Magazines have been having recent fall in sales “is readership falling 17.4 percent a year to little over 56,000…bloggers and media pundits started questioning whether the title has a future at all in its print incarnation.” this suggest that less people are buying magazine and maybe in the near future the magazine will stop selling in shops as not many people are buying the magazine but as this generation is not as interested in reading magazine as much, but are almost always online young people are less likely to read magazines but get their information of the internet. However “it recently registered 3,501,326 unique users online almost 2 million from June 2007” this shows that even though not as many people are buying magazine there is a huge fan base online which makes up for the falling magazine sales.
NME has been being published since 1952 and since then the magazine has changed drematicaly as before the magazine was all about rock muisc and now NME has a mixture of music in it. "People bang on about heritage, but we still offer a true alternative" showing that people still expect the magazine to be the same as it was and the magazine has changed since it firist stared and isnt as good as it was. I get the impression that adult who used to read NME magazine think that it isnt as good as it was but because todays genration have a different taste in music than before so NME has change the magazine as time has changed and has become more recent. I get the impression that adults who used to read NME magazine feel as if NME Magazine has lost its uniqueness.