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...selling a tract on dissident poets. And Guangzhou Television sacked its top three editors when someone ran subtitles under images of Premier Zhu Rongji reading, "Former follower of Falun Gong," the banned spiritual practice. The foreign press has suffered, too. For the past 16 weeks, China has banned newsstand sales of TIME after the magazine published an article in February on Falun Gong. The on going crackdown has spooked some of China's most daring editors. "We killed a story on a corruption scandal," says a reporter at China News Weekly. "It's too sensitive...
KATE BETTS was relieved of her job as editor of Harper's Bazaar last week, less than two years after she was hired from Vogue. Her attempts to bring a more youthful look and feel to the once aesthetically ascetic couture bible resulted in poor newsstand sales and her departure from the building to make way for GLENDA BAILEY, editor of Marie Claire, the somewhat less refined fashion magazine that has seen rising circulation since Bailey inherited the post in 1996 from BONNIE FULLER, who two weeks ago was asked to resign as editor of Glamour, where she spiced things...
...would you feel if the newsstand on the corner carried Southern Partisan Magazine, a neo-Confederate publication? I would feel shocked and outraged—not that such speech is legal, but that members of my community traffick in hate speech. Fortunately, we can all rest easy that Out of Town News and Nini’s Corner do not carry such garbage. How would you feel if the newsstand on the corner sold a cartoon called “Chester the Molester,” in which a young Jewish girl is lured by a dollar bill attached...
What's creepy, though, is I got the EW issue on Friday, the newsstand release date, and then I popped into Tower Records on Saturday and the quote from the magazine was already on a sticker on the Dido album. Either they're really efficient, or the quote was released in advance. Conspiracy theory time...
...must not be the only one annoyed by the trouble I have to go through to get stored phone numbers off my cell phone. After all, nearly one of three Americans already has a mobile phone, according to "Cell Phone Nation" in the current newsstand issue of TIME Digital magazine...