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RE: Will some of you guys PLEASE "yIn Suq"???

>Also good know you are yet again a majority of one.

You keep saying this or a variant as if it were some kind of issue with
my role as Stereophile's editor. You also lecture me me on how I should
do my job; say that if you were the owner or publisher of Stereophile you
would force me into early retirement because of the decisions I make; yet
you have yet to answer the question put to you by other posters what your
background in publishing is to be so sure of what you write.

I gave you the best job description for a magazine editor yesterday, from
Henry Luce: "All great editors are men able to see how stories, episodes,
and personalities flow and merge one into the other to reproduce the
pattern of a world that only their own inner eye perceives."

What this means is that I am given carte blanche by the management of the
company that owns Stereophile to decide what content is appropriate to
offer readers of the print magazine and surfers of the magazine's website.
In that respect, there is no editorial board to whom I report, nor even
an editorial director. The only people to whom I report are the magazine's
readers and as Stereophile has a larger circulation than all other
English-language high-end audio print magazines combined, those readers
seem to be okay with my decisions. And as that is the case, so are my
company's management.

When that changes, you have a point. But until that time, you don't.

John Atkinson
Technical Editor, Stereophile


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