Re: Stereophile


"ScottW" <ScottW48@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> Clyde Slick wrote:
>> >
>> > George applied his criterion to the letters.
>> > I chose to apply that same criterion to the staff writers
>> > and found similar results.
>> > They are not accorded the courtesy of having their words
>> > presented without editing, nor are they presumed to be experts
>> > in their field by virtue of their credentials.
>> > If you feel the criterion is flawed in the application to
>> > staff writers then it must be similarly flawed for letters.
>> > So... is your complaint with the criterion or with the
>> > results when applied to staff writers?
>> >
>> > ScottW
>>
>>
>> Come on Scott, virtually all magazines (note, this is
>> not about scientific journals) edit their writers.
>
> So do comic books.
>
>> And it is you who presume them to not be experts.
>
> I don't presume anything. I certainly don't presume them to be
> experts by virtue of their position of writer.
>
>> Nowhere has it been presented that the editor makes the same
>> presumptions.
>
> Not presuming them to not be experts does not lead to presuming them
> to be experts. What's your point?
>

Eliminate the double negatives.
Then get my point.
What you did, sadly, falls under
debating trade tactics



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