Stack of Val Magazine issues
Val Magazine is a vapid teen-centered magazine published by Val. It is shown in the episode, The Lost Girls.
Overview[]
The magazine is heavily centered on teen fashion, Hollywood gossip, and especially on Val herself. Non-Val related articles include topics like "What TV's Hottest Hunks Really Think About Your Blackheads." Jodie Landon implies that it shows very little ethnic diversity in the people it covers and on the issues it touches.
Despite all the above, it's a popular magazine—and, bizarrely, Timothy O'Neill and Angela Li appear to be readers as well.
Mr. O'Neill had submitted a Daria Morgendorffer essay, "My So-Called Angst," to the "Spend a Day with Val" contest without Daria's consent. After winning the contest, Daria was to write a article for the magazine, but the offer was withdrawn after her verbal takedown of Val during her visit to Lawndale. Val later wrote a news article firing back (anonymously) at Daria, which didn't bother Daria and it just proves that Daria is right about Val.
Trivia[]
- The episode is ripping the piss out of Jane Pratt, editor of the self-titled Jane Magazine and later of website xoJane. Pratt herself was a good sport about it and in 2010 contributed a tongue-in cheek question, "would you parody someone now in order to make a social statement?," to a Tracy Grandstaff interview. In 1999, MTV's episode guides called it "a "Savvy"—like teen magazine" as a cover. The later website feature "Guestward Ho!" nodded to the real source: "Reminiscent of a real-life editor who named a magazine and a talk show after herself. (But her name has four letters, so it's so totally not her!)"