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>Magazines like that are read by a lot of people-

I just got around to checking out the publisher of ELLE. It is published in America, but it is OWNED by a giant French media conglomerate.

They are Hachette Filipacchi. Their website boasts that they are active "...in 33 Countries on 5 Continents." In the US, here they publish about a dozen other magazines, most well known. Here are their other magazines (one search engine lists "George" as well, but I don't know if that's true):

AUTOMOTIVE
Car and Driver
Cycle World
Road & Track

ENTHUSIAST
American Photo
Boating
Mobile Entertainment
Flying
Popular Photography
Premiere
Sound & Vision
Travel Holiday

SHELTER
Elle Décor
Home
Metropolitan Home

WOMEN
Elle Girl
Elle
Woman's Day

Sounds like a company with a heck of a lot of resources behind them. And since it's French, any kind of political content in their magazine raises some interesting questions and possibilities.

Mark W.

That *is* very interesting! I meant to add the point that in advertising terms, a magazine is "non-volatile." ( unlike, say, a radio ad that is gone as soon as you hear it )

One problem with the web is a lot of people never see the stuff that's on it- even here, I rarely check back more than a few hundred posts at best. It's easy to miss things. Another minor point is that some people put more "belief" in a printed article- it's more "real" if someone bothered to print it.

Been reading Elle since I flew for Pan Am in Europe in the Seventies...they've been around a long time (as have I) and they were always very leftist, recently pro-Hillary, frequent disparaging anti-Bush references. That is what makes this sooo interesting to me. THis is NOT their usual take on things. The evidence has to be pretty convincing for them to take this point of view. Dancer