Matt Barrow wrote:
"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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Bret Ludwig wrote:
It's well known the product liability crisis was an excuse to build
Citations instead of Skyhawks, and that such whore-ass "journalists" as
the allegedly great Richard Collins spiked any serious discussion of
the issue to keep the full page spreads coming.


You gotta stop taking those stupid pills. :-)

No, I'm sure I'm angry at people like Collins, because probably I'm
naive and believe people should write the truth instead of what will
keep the full page ads flowing in. The fact is, looking back, all the
magazines published what the advertisers wanted said, and that's the
way they stayed in business. As I get older I realize that is the
natural way of life, and common not only to airplane publications, but
all periodicals that take advertising. Camera magazines don't tell you
the old cameras were better and you shouldn't buy the new plastic
camera. Guitar magazines don't tell you the new Fender guitars are
poorly made and sound terrible and need a fret job so you can play
them. (That isn't true today but it was for almost a decade.) What can
I say, I was crazy then.

I have no love for trial lawyers and I would loive to see their income
crimped off, too. But the fact is , if any industry needed a hiding it
was this one.