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RE: The last 3 companies skewered by Stereophile..not advertisers?

>When I look at the last three company's whose products were ripped in
>Stereophile, they do not provide Stereophile with ad revenue...

You really need to get a life, Sprezza Tura, cherry-picking your data to
reach spurious conclusions. Look, to save you the time thinking up new
accusations, there are 4 scenarios you can examine to prove that a
magazine's editorial decisions are affected by advertising.

You already mentioned one, where manufacturers who don't advertise get
negative reviews. There are 3 more:

2: The magazine gives a positive review to a company that doesn't
advertise: this is to persuade it to advertise.

3: The magazine gives a positive review to a company that advertises: this
is to say "thank you" for the advertising.

4: The magazine gives a negative review to a company that advertises: this
is to punish it for either not advertising enough or for advertising to a
greater extent in the magazine's competition.

So there you have it: every possible review outcome can be laid at the
feet of advertising. It's bullshit, of course, but if it makes you happy...

But answer me this: when there are magazines and websites that explicitly
link editorial coverage to whether or not a company advertises - these
have been discussed on the Asylum in the past - why do you keep singling
out Stereophile, which doesn't do "pay for play," for your accusations?

And I see that elsewhere in this thread, you have again raised the issue
that my wife is a sales rep for the magazine group that includes
Stereophile. (Her name is Laura LoVecchio, so I thank you for getting
that correct in future.) This begs another question: if you feel that
Stereophile is suspicious in this respect, why do you never raise the
issues concerning other publications and websites where, for example,
the editor is also the person who sells advertising?

As I said, Sprezza Tura, you need to get a life.

John Atkinson
Technical Editor, Stereophile


Edits: 04/26/15
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