[TenTec] Reflector is getting effective at killing sales. True? Possible? Do reflectors like ours have more power to sway than we might consider?

[Mike Hyder -N4NT-]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Volpe" <kg6tt at arrl.net>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Reflector is getting effective at killing sales. True? 
Possible? Do reflectors like ours have more power to sway than we might 
consider?

//HACKING MOST//

> ... The more
> rigid checks and balances of the traditional press and publishing world
> are giving way to individual and sometimes irresponsible unbridled
> personal liberties.

Yes, let's bridle those individual and sometimes irresponsible personal 
liberties!

Let's see... when you talk of "rigid checks and balances of the traditional 
press and publishing world" are you speaking of the NY Times' Jason Blair 
and similar "reporters" who make up stories out of whole cloth?  Or are you 
talking about their use of anonymous sources?  And surely their printing an 
"Editorial comment" on page 17 to correct a page 1 bogus article is 
responsible.  Or maybe I've missed it and what you are speaking of is NBC 
blowing up the truck to show how it will burn in a crash, or Dan Rather and 
the forged documents and his Mary Mapes who have the attitude that they can 
say anything without proof and it will stand until others can prove the 
untruth of it.

The internet is probably the very best place to get good information because 
of the immediacy of the feedback.  And the folks 'round here don't depend on 
advertising revenue from companies whose rigs are reviewed.

Still, we need to avoid what I see as hateful rhetoric and be sure that much 
of that I've heard spouted is just hateful.  It is not helpful when viewed 
in any light.

I am not taking issue with you, Jerry, but with what you said about the 
"traditional press..."

Mike N4NT

//HACKING THE REST//

> 73,
> Jerry, KG6TT
> Fairfield, CA
>
> [Satisfied Ten-Tec equipment owner and user since 1971]
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