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You would have a different view if you read the article in question.

1) Your argument regarding including this viewpoint under the heading "As We See It" doesn't hold water. The writers comprising Stereophile's staff are not merely a collection of random individuals that were found on the next barstool over. They were deliberately chosen by the editor because he felt that what they had to say merited saying in an *official* capacity, one that represents the philosophy of the magazine. (And please don't try to tell me that Stereophile doesn't have an foundational philosophy.)

Contrast this to your example in Postive Feedback Online, where you gave a forum to one of your readers. It was made *perfectly* clear that he did not represent your enterprise. You went so far as to distance yourself explicitly:

"I should make it clear that I agree with Lynn Olson, and disagree quite completely with [reader John Phelan]"

Stereophile performs this service too, in its "Letters to the Editor" section. Comparing this example to the situation in Stereophile is completely specious.

2) My example was not ad hominem. If you had read the article in question, you would know that.

In the example I gave in my previous post, the hypothetical guest editorialist had a core philosophy that was diametrically opposed to the core philosophy of the magazine. The same is true of the editorial Austin wrote in Stereophile. As JA states in his July 2005 "As We See It" editorial:

"This, of course, is as J. Gordon Holt envisaged it when he founded this magazine 43 years ago: that the optimal way to judge a component's performance is to use it for its intended purpose—to listen to it."

This founding principle was unceremoniously dumped overboard when Austin trashed a product without bothering to try it out.

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