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Article #2944Re: About the CGW sex ads whiners
From: na... Nathan Engle
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 00:00
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.
--
Nathan Engle Electron Juggler
Indiana University Dept of Psychology
nen...@indiana.edu http://nickel.ucs.indiana.edu/~nengle/home.html
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