ORIGINAL: Hossfly
ORIGINAL: Liberator
Hoss are you not the guy that has all the newest, latest, greatest ideas of how to make a magazine "pull it's own weight"? You know all this and can't figure out that "this month's" may mean the most recent magazine?
They don't call you brilliant for nothin!!
Sometimes I certainly am not very brilliant. After reading some of your posts, I still gave you credit for being able to say what you mean versus what you MAY have meant. YUP! that ain't very smart on this end!
You can't say what you mean, yet I have to interpret what you MAY mean. Well I have never been known to be a politician as I say it like I see it.
I'll have to leave to you that political art of your method of side-stepping what you think you said as you may have wanted to say when you think about what you said during YOUR WRONG TIME OF THE MONTH.
edited to add: BTW if I became AMA President, within 1 year that magazine staff would learn how to break even and within two years they would learn how to make a profit. If they resisted strongly, the new staff would do it from the start.
Well, either that, or you would well and truly screw things up beyond all possible recognition within six weeks or so...being that you have no experience whatsover in publishing or editing or anything like that, and that you have it in for the magazine anyway before you even start.
But since you won't be president, I won't spend a lot of time worrying about how you might mess up one of my favorite magazines, Model Aviation.
You know, someone once said "for every complex problem, there is an elegant and simple and obvious solution...that WILL NOT WORK. That's where you are, Horrace. You speak great platitudes of what great acts and rapid fixes to this situation or that that you would do, were you President, but the reality is that leading a group of 170,000 or so does not require a benevolent dictator, it requires a politician, one who can make people arrive at a concensus, arrange comprimises, smooth over rough edges, and try not to flip the boat completely over, so that it is still at the very least slightly servicable for the NEXT generation. Remember, AMA has been around for seventy years, they must be doing SOMETHING right.