Overnight success

First, it took the publishers over a year after the original concept to actually release an issue on something as wavering as youth trends... And, the cover does not scream "youth magazine" to me. So, I don't think it was politics that doomed this venture.

Youth today can get direct one-on-one interaction with people their own age on social networking sites. NOw, compare and contrast the magazine with MTV in the 80's.

MTV made it easy to see concerts across the country and internationally. They banded the youth together. They were about music that you could hear and bands you could see.

This magazine is supposed to be about music, but youth can hear actual music in the profiles of their MySpace friends. They don't need to trust an opinion of an older editor. The magazine cannot play music. It's a pain to flip through magazines if you're left-handed.

Do you really need a magazine to tell you, even if it's an accurate report, about the type of music people are listening to, when you can go and see what your friends are into, or see the top downloaded tracks in iTunes, and that's all that matters, really?