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Re: Jim Zumbo and Don Imus
improved modified #36208 04/16/07 10:12 PM
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Originally Posted By: improved modified
Fame is fleeting. One minute the masses love you, the next they are running for the tar and feathers.


Isn't the saying: "The bigger they come, the harder they fall?"
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Re: Jim Zumbo and Don Imus
Mike B. #36215 04/16/07 10:40 PM
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Originally Posted By: Mike B.
YOU ARE RIGHT
FROM NOW ON I WILL ASKS IF MY POSTS MIGHT OFFEND ANYONE
I APOLOGIZE TO ONE AND ALL I MAY HAVE OFFENDED I PROMISE NOT TO POST WHERE I MAY OFFEND
MIKE B

DAVE: I APLOGIZE FOR TRYING TO STAY ON THE SUBJECT OR CHASTISING OTHERS FOR NOT


Mike, No offense, honest, but there is a reason they call all caps SHOUTING on the net. It is a little irritating to read. Is that your intent?
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Re: Jim Zumbo and Don Imus
PeteM #36217 04/16/07 10:45 PM
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Originally Posted By: PeteM
It is amazing what happens in a "free society". A gun writer is trashed by his own audience. A multi-millionaire shock jock is smacked by the suits that grew richer every time he opened his mouth.

It really is not about "free speech" at all. It is about the corporate bottom line.

Pete


Pete, You are so right. It has nothing to do with "free society" or political correctness or morals or ethics or anything else. It is all about money. That is it (as we might say) lock, stock and barrel.
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Re: Jim Zumbo and Don Imus
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Originally Posted By: King Brown
It doesn't have to be "bad." All writers in "our" magazines are pulling their punches unless it's straight-forward bucolic and descriptive. They know what happens to writers who kick against the traces. How many times have members rightly commented about the endless infomercials?


King, there's a vast difference between what Imus and Zumbo did (both having placed feet squarely in their respective mouths) and writing "infomercials". Guys that read gun reviews and say, "Gee, the writers never say anything bad about the guns they review!" must not be reading the same reviews I am, or else they have problems with reading comprehension. I'm going to do a piece on Turkish doubles in the near future. I have one of the new S&W's to play around with. Nice enough gun from what I've seen so far--but the trigger pulls measure 9 1/2#. That WILL be included in the article.
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