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The Power of the Powerless

The Power of the Powerless

Teen Vogue teaches revolution

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Mar 16, 2022
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The Importance of Being Teen Vogue

Teen Vogue is underrepresented in media discourse on politics. Yet, its work on change and culture is more on point than most writing out there - and certainly more than the latest leftist bickering. For example, “How the Young Lords Fought for Health Care Access and Won” gives a blueprint for change that worked and could be used today. The tactics can be reinterpreted and used in our personal worlds as well.

Teen Vogue, with 11.6 million readers, has a wider reach than The Atlantic (884,000), the Wall Street Journal (3.4 million), the New York Times (4.6 million) and Jacobin (3 million -I think Jacobin is lying). If Tucker Carlson wanted to really identify a threat to the current power structure, Teen Vogue would be mentioned all the time as the source of dangerous thought, rather than CNN and the New York Times. A Forbes article inadvertently shows why:

Among total viewers, Fox News finished first with 2.473 million viewers in prime, followed by …

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