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Celebrities are not roaming the long winding halls on this February afternoon, the day of our tour. Instead, we are welcomed by their blown up covers hanging off the walls. N'SYNC, The Backstreet Boys and Destiny's Child are only a small portion of the covers published over the years. The conference room, where the mechanisms of Teen People are broken down, also has its walls covered with approximately 4ft x 2ft covers. One of four covers of Britney Spears stares at you wherever you sit. Of the two sides of the magazine, this is the editorial side, also known as where all the fun happens. Right outside the door, in seemingly millions of cubicles, is where all the celebrity interviews are put together and all of the entertainment news is delivered. This is where the entire magazine comes together, producing the heart of entertainment and news for the young generation. When you get past all the covers and huge posters bedecked by thousands of signatures, the office seems almost normal. White cubicles line the office area; empty hallways, conference rooms, and the sounds of typing stimulate your senses. Then, as you get closer, there is a surging of beauty product samples crowding one cubicle, tons of CDs demand the space of another and, of course, the star association is even more apparent as pictures of actors and musicians with their arms around staff members grace the work spaces, as well.
Back in the conference room it is clear that Teen People is not only a magazine that feeds informational and entertainment to their audience. They also gladly welcome what their readers have say; more or less they provide a medium in delivering the voice of teenagers. On the walls of the conference room, beside all the enlarged covers, that voice speaks with a banner of a white hand holding a black hand and the message "Put your fist to a better use" underneath it.
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Drew
Barrymore's colorful capri pants are encased in the walls, past
the heavy security of a tall midtown office building and up 24 floors.
No, this is not some kind of celebrity vault. These are the offices
of Teen People, one of the best selling teen magazines in the country.
This is the place where all the celebrities come just to be featured
between the pages and their tour is where we finally get a glimpse
of what goes on behind them.
The
second side of Teen People may not be considered as entertaining.
The business side of the magazine deals in all of their advertisements.
The Cover Girl, Ralph Lauren and the Loreal ads you may see as soon
as you open the book are all the result of brainchildren from the
left side's winding walkways and cubicles. The fish bowl, an office
with walls made of glass and fishes pasted up, is the main site
of almost all the advertisement editing. The second you get near
this office, the feeling is different; it is almost deadly silent,
a clear sign of any hard working business. However, this feeling
fades as you turn the corner and walk down the halls, entering the
web charged offices of 
The
actual articles and messages that are presented in the Teen people
magazine are not always represented through their tours. In the
March 2002 issue, there is a story covering teens fighting in the
Afghanistan war, voices from afar finding their way into the nationwide
popular magazine. The April 2002 issue includes a section entitled
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