Undies in a knot tonight Chuck? Chill.

Not at all. The man of a thousand screen names presumed to declare what the
item *really* was, and why it was written.
He was wrong on both counts, wrong about the way the business works, and wrong
to run his mouth about a subject where he is so clearly underinformed.

"Gould 0738" wrote in message
...
Undies in a knot tonight Chuck? Chill.

Not at all. The man of a thousand screen names presumed to declare
what the
item *really* was, and why it was written.
He was wrong on both counts, wrong about the way the business works,
and wrong
to run his mouth about a subject where he is so clearly underinformed.

As an engineer, I found the article interesting but a little light on
details as has been noted by others. It did have hints of a penumbra of
an emanation of the kind of article Motor Trend was famous for. Do you
recall the raves for the Vega and the wonderful new engine process in
which the bores were anodized which was said to be far superior to using
liners? Popular Science was another magazine given to that sort of
article. I will not venture a guess as to the motivation of the authors
and editors. I doubt, except perhaps for motor trend, that it was so
crass as a straight money for editorial transaction.

Providing all the bloody details, especially if independently arrived
at, is way more work that one person can handle.

del cecchi

Gould,
I hate to tell you this, but you are the one uniformed. The question is why
are you so upset if your publisher asked you to write a "fluff" article. It
was a good "fluff" article, nothing to be ashamed of. It sounded like all
of the "reviews" in boating magazines.


"Gould 0738" wrote in message
...
Undies in a knot tonight Chuck? Chill.

Not at all. The man of a thousand screen names presumed to declare what
the
item *really* was, and why it was written.
He was wrong on both counts, wrong about the way the business works, and
wrong
to run his mouth about a subject where he is so clearly underinformed.

Gould,
I hate to tell you this, but you are the one uniformed. The question is why
are you so upset if your publisher asked you to write a "fluff" article

My publisher seldom asks me to write anything. I have full editorial
discretion.
That's a concept you probably wouldn't understand, as all you can seem to write
are snide personal remarks about other people.

Why don't you get back over to the OT political threads where you belong, and
stop trying to pick fights and start personal arguments in an on-topic thread?

You want to bitch about my personal or political philosophies, fine. Do it
where it's appropriate. Trying to hijack a thread into a personal squabble is
*exactly* what your very favorite participant in the NG is famous for. Is part
of your fixation on that person a burning desire to emulate his behavior?

It sounded like all
of the "reviews" in boating magazines.


It wasn't a product review, it was an informational interview and represented
as such.

I'd think a guy who claims to be an expert
on writing and publishing, as well as a mind-reader, would know the difference.

Gould,

I was not trying to pick a fight with anyone, and was meant to support your
magazine position in running the infomercial.. I was responding to
someone's comment in which he said " Chuck, was that an advertisement? I
read a lot of nice words, but didn't
see any test results or other statistics to support the claims."

My reply was "It's a PR piece for a new product. "Articles" like this is
very common in
all boating magazines. .Normally they agree to run so many ads if the
magazine agrees to run the piece."

Your reply was "You don't know a goddam thing about boats, and don't even
begin to
insinuate you know anything about boating magazines."
In other posts you continue to make personal insults and were trying to pick
a fight. I continued to keep the discussion on topic about boating
magazines.

As far as you comment about the editor asking you to write the piece, didn't
you say your editor asked you to give the president of the company a call?
If not, how did you hear about the product and get the presidents name and
telephone number so you 'interview" him?

Even though you obviously was the one trying to start a fight, I have
deliberately stayed away from a fight and keep the discussion on topic.

As you can see from the all other replies everyone agreed that this is the
typical well written PR piece run by boating magazines.

Again, I am amazed at how upset you became when I made my supporting
comment. I have done everything to keep this on a discussion about boating
magazines, you have made this into a discussion of personalities and not
issues. According to your standards, repeated often in this NG, that is
only done when someone believes they have lost the argument.





"Gould 0738" wrote in message
...
Gould,
I hate to tell you this, but you are the one uniformed. The question is
why
are you so upset if your publisher asked you to write a "fluff" article

My publisher seldom asks me to write anything. I have full editorial
discretion.
That's a concept you probably wouldn't understand, as all you can seem to
write
are snide personal remarks about other people.

Why don't you get back over to the OT political threads where you belong,
and
stop trying to pick fights and start personal arguments in an on-topic
thread?

You want to bitch about my personal or political philosophies, fine. Do it
where it's appropriate. Trying to hijack a thread into a personal squabble
is
*exactly* what your very favorite participant in the NG is famous for. Is
part
of your fixation on that person a burning desire to emulate his behavior?

It sounded like all
of the "reviews" in boating magazines.


It wasn't a product review, it was an informational interview and
represented
as such.

I'd think a guy who claims to be an expert
on writing and publishing, as well as a mind-reader, would know the
difference.