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Re: About the CGW sex ads whiners

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From: na... Nathan Engle
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 00:00
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> If you don't like a magazine's advertising, don't buy it.

    Or, if you prefer to be constructive rather than passive-aggressive you 
might choose to do what people here have been doing - voice your complaints 
through a channel by which you believe the magazine management will get your 
message before you just throw up your hands and leave in disgust. Every 
customer who gets driven away that way is a customer you will NEVER see again 
except maybe on Usenet where they mercilessly flame every move you make...

    I've heard all the arguments about why this sort of well-intentioned 
feedback is supposedly an infringement of the freedom of expression - 
craven censorship of much treasured ideas. IMO these arguments are flawed. 
People like myself who think that sex ads are out-of-place in gaming magazines 
have as much right to try to influence the advertisement policies of the 
magazine as any Madison Avenue market research firm pushing the reasoning 
MoreSex -> HigherProfits -> SocietalBenefits.


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Nathan Engle             Electron Juggler
Indiana University       Dept of Psychology
nen...@indiana.edu       http://nickel.ucs.indiana.edu/~nengle/home.html
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From: na...@psythird.psych.indiana.edu (Nathan Engle)
Subject: Re: About the CGW sex ads whiners
Date: 1995/08/07
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