FWIW. It seems pretty obvious that you've never been the editor of any
sort of large monthly publication. You really don't have any idea of
whats goes into publishing a good article every month, but you're
certainly good at pretending to know what it takes.
Perhaps you could take it upon yourself to web publish an in depth
article every month and post a link on the reflector. Judging from your
past behavior on the reflector my guess is that you wouldn't take the
time and effort to do so. If by some miracle you actually did, you'd
quickly run out of quality material to cover and need to get info from
your readership to keep it going...just like every other person creating
a monthly article for a magazine like QST.
Those are my thoughts, not yours. YMMV.
73,
Ian - K8MM
On 1/13/2015 3:38 PM, Les Rayburn wrote:
Sorry, but I don't buy into the idea that it's the responsibility of
operators to supply a columnist with submissions. The original
criticism of the current column was that they were basically just
summaries of openings, and lacking any sort of motivation,
encouragement to improve your station, and/or information on how to do
so. I think that criticism is valid.
Also, no one forced anyone to agree to write the column. Being the
editor of the prestigious "World Above 50 MHz" column is an honor, and
holding that position should not automatically shield the editor from
critique.
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