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Ok, now LA Times does require a log in, but I would be violating some sort of copyright if I pasted the entire article here

Here is the url
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http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-magswag03jan16,1,6950635.story?coll=la-headlines-magazine

And here is an excerpt:

Swagland. It's not a mythical over-the-rainbow realm, an Eastern European country, a theme park. You might call it a state of mind, a wondrous alternate universe concocted by publicists, funded by corporations eager for media coverage of their wares and frequented by journalists who have cast off concerns about conflicts of interest and embraced a new creed of conspicuous consumption.