Originally published at: What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue - TPM – Talking Points Memo
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. If you just skimmed the press release, you wouldn’t really get the scale of it. On Monday, Vogue.com announced that Teen Vogue would be folded into its parent publication — part of a “transition, in which Teen Vogue will keep its unique…
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What a difficult read. So many of the remaining institutions of journalism are being obliterated by hidebound billionaires and sloughed-off Murdoch detritus chancers selling pivot-to-video quick fixes. There’s still an appetite for fact-based reporting, though, so I know it won’t be like this forever. Best of luck to everyone who worked to make Teen Vogue a success in spite of the sabotage. You deserve so much better.
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In case you wondered: there is never a bottom for the subservience of the nation’s Media Whores.
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This is a real tragedy for young women and girls. I admired Teen Vogue and its staff so much. It’s provided thought, information, points of view that have not been available from any other source. Awful. … It’s the “let’s cope with out uncomfortable political situation by just dumping everything that we figure may not be beloved by the apparently rising dictatorship in hopes that our general status won’t be threatened even for a minute!” Unforgivable for these moneyed institutions to keep doing this…and yet…I wonder if anybody at Conde Nast is actually thinking about the ramifications of this behavior, or whether everybody who would has no by now walked and been swept out the door.
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Agree completely. This is a tragedy.
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I figured it meant no new content for Trump’s spank bank.
(And before people lose their tempers at my flippancy, yes, this is unnecessary and sad.)
Really sad to hear. I have been impressed with the thoughtful & informative stories that would pop out from this magazine.
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I’m about as far as one could get from Teen Vogue’s target audience, but their cultural and political coverage was amazing.
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Articles in Teen Vogue caught my eyes sometime in the last 10 years - I was amazed - “Wow, this critical, insightful and lively articles is coming from …Vogue?! I slowly notice Teen Vogue was going gangbusters on critical and engaging journalism. This is a real loss.
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