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...Swing's hypocritical marketing strategy is bothersome; the magazine aims directly at Generation X but attempts to trash that very concept. If, as Swing says, X is a commercial creation, the magazine is not only playing into it, but profiting from...
Following that excitement comes a flagrantly hypocritical book review of Late Bloomers. The review decries the book's encapsulation of the Generation X philosophy that is ironically the very basis for Swing. In a separate review of a book on Japanese youth culture, Michael Krantz instructs, "Here's how real journalism happens: You find a worthy subject, buy yourself a notebook and go learn something." David Lauren should take heed...
...that piece, Lauren intended to create "positive profiles of people who [sic] we admire." Why not throw the hard questions at them? Why not quiz these "role models" about how they achieved success so early, what motivated them, what obstacles they faced? "Swing doesn't have to be an angry downtown magazine to connect," Lauren explains...
Lauren fails to see the difference between angry and critical. The naive and simplistic writing that results from such an editorial perspective is constant throughout Swing, with one large exception. Of 108 total pages, 37 are filled by advertising...
...Nini's Corner, the twenty-something magazine seller told me that he actually thought Swing had definite potential. Out of Town News has given a prominent rack and multiple windows to the magazine. Lauren says his creation "sold out" at Stanford, and beat out Time, Forbes and Esquire for the twenty-something age group in Boston...