Interesting that they were covering DS so intensively. The impression you get after the fact was that the heavy PR on the show was the province of the teenybopper magazines.
That's true. Unfortunately, there seem to be a lot of misimpressions that have been sent out, as you put it, after the fact. :- But the real truth is that the various soap magazines and even quite a few of the "normal" fan magazines aimed at adults covered DS regularly. Truthfully, there were probably more DS articles published in magazines like AfterNoon TV, Daytime TV, TV Radio Show, TV Picture Life, ect. than there were in 16, Tiger Beat, Fave, etc. simply by virtue of the fact that, at the time DS originally aired, there were far more fan magazines aimed at adults than there were ones aimed at teens.