At the time, Mr. Reilly, as the chairman of K-III Communications, later known as Primedia Inc., was busy buying publications like New York magazine, the World Almanac, The Daily Racing Form and Soap Opera Digest.
One aim of the Southern Hill Project is to put pressure on tour guides: "The Tourism Bureau ensures that travellers bound for Hong Kong and Taiwan receive warnings and are subject to propaganda, and tour guides are given the responsibility to remind, discourage and prevent tourists from buying publications that are deemed politically harmful to bring back to China," says Bao.
This may be because affluent women are more likely to buy publications in which articles about cancer occur.
Updated at 1.03pm GMT 12.32pm GMT Readers' revenge One Twitter user explores a line of argument strangely avoided by much of the media so far: Andrew Murphy (@murphaloid) If only the newspaper buying public would take some responsibility too, and not buy the publications in question!
For every advertisement bought, the publication or network would run a public service announcement or incorporate an antidrug message into the article or program.
"I had always been a fan in college," said Neil McGinness, whose new company, Bat Boy L.L.C., announced this month it had bought the publication from American Media.
Rea Hederman, the tall, courtly Southerner who owns The New York Review, says that he has been asked the succession question practically every day since he bought the publication in 1984, and he still has no answer.
Barbey also noted on the call that he bought the publication to save it.
The New York Times' David Carr used his weekly media column Monday to analyze the changes at the Wall Street Journal since Rupert Murdoch bought the publication.
Since Mr. Bradley bought the publications, the Beltway-business-minded Beltway-business-minded Beltway-business-minded National Journal Group
