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Just take a look at the October 11 issue of Newsweek: Beavis and Butt-head have made the cover. After this, we can probably look forward to seeing them as Time's Men of the Year, or nude on the front of Vanity Fair...
...Newsweek story is just the latest installment in the mainstream media's attempt to figure out our generation. Why this insatiable curiosity? Perhaps because our parents are scared of us. They see us riding the wave of an increasingly violent, vulgar culture that threatens to engulf everything in its path...
Having swallowed this view of our generation whole, Newsweek and its ilk are constantly on the lookout for further signs of our generation's decline. Surely, the pent-up frustrations of these angry young people cannot last forever as harmless apathy. Some day, something's going to snap...
...many, this seems a disturbing development. Certainly Newsweek thinks so; a profound foreboding lurks behind its expose of "loser television," of which Beavis and Butthead are only the latest installment. Shaking their heads, culture-watchers seem to say, "How sad that the only thing the youth of today have in common is the pathetic TV show they watch." And since we are what we watch...well, just see for yourselves...
...national survey, Time was ranked fourth and Vogue fifth. But Newsweek only came in sixth nationwide, beating out Gentlemen's Quarterly, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated and Mademoiselle to round...