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THE MONTHLY READ!

Fiona Flavin
Ballincollig CS, Cork

My article is about teenage magazines. The most popular teenage magazines for girls are Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Company, Sugar and Bliss. The most popular for boys are Max Power and other obvious ones that are kept under the mattress. My article is based on female magazines.

Every fortnight or every month nearly every teenage girl dishes out about £5 to buy a magazine. These are usually bought because there is a famous celebrity on the cover or posters of the latest 'sex god'. Girl magazines have very little relevance to a teenager’s life although they claim to help sort out all of your problems with articles on how to lose weight, and the latest diet that all the famous people are on.

Magazines like Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire cost £4.70 and £5. These magazines contain plenty of photographs of beautiful people, and this is what I do when I buy a magazine. I firstly go through it quickly and look at all the pictures. I then go back and read what interests me. I believe this is the case with most teenage girls. If there is a beautiful famous person on the cover, we are instantly attracted to it, just to see what they do in their spare time, and see where they shop and who they are going out with.

I think magazines bring out the shallowness in a person and they can also make girls feel inadequate to these gorgeous actors and models. Overall I think magazines are overpriced, there are also far too many advertisements in them, but they are a source of entertainment. They also make teenagers read, even if the information is not educational, reading irrelevant information is better then reading nothing at all!

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