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TeenVogue has done some of the best political and cultural reporting over the last few years. Teenage girls these days apparently care very deeply about the iss

• makomk 7y ago
  To be more accurate, Teen Vogue has done some of the most consistently and aggressively anti-Trump political and cultural reporting over the last few years. (They've gained quite a following online for it.) Which is why this caught people's attention in the first place - it's pretty much the exact diametrical opposite of that. A soft-pedalled fluff piece like this about women in tech doing important and powerful things would be right on brand for Teen Vogue's traditional role as a magazine for teenage girls, but that's not their audience anymore. For additional context, a lot of the folks who like Teen Vogue respect the New York Times less despite their investigative reporting because they're just not anti-Trump enough. In particular, there's a lot of resentment online over them pushing back against that bizarre conspiracy thoery about Trump's DNS-based secret communication channel with Russia that was obviously nothing of the sort. Not even particularly strongly - they just responded to an incredibly viral tweet by Clinton's campaign demanding the FBI investigate it by reporting that they already did and concluded all the evidence pointed to it just being ordinary mailservers processing ordinary hotel mass marketing emails - but that was enough.
• Jamwinner 7y ago
  Do you have any examples? I picked one up and saw ads, some soft-hitting feelgood near-politics, and some social justice stuff, but nothing of any substance. It looked like what it was... a medium for serving ads to little girls.