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Re: Chinese Whispers?

> I am sorry that this has come up again. I don't want restitution of
> Bob's cables, but in principle it is much the same situation that JV
> is accused of, and apparently the cable company has been compensated
> in that instance, by TAS.

I get your point, John. _My_ point is that when I did phone you to
offer to resolve this matter, you told me that it was a closed
issue for you. You told me that though you remember that it was
Jonathan Scull who was the reviewer involved, you didn't know what
cables had been sent him, you didn't know when they had been sent,
you didn't know what the value of the cables was, and that you
couldn't tell me anything more. You concluded the conversation by
telling me that I should forget about it.

> I might note that I did not publically bring out the reviewer's
> name (JS) on this website, but told you privately, because I did
> not want to embarrass your magazine or the former reviewer > specifically...

And I told you that those were not concerns of mine, that if what
you were saying was correct, I would like to sort it out.

> I still wanted to make the point that being very high-minded means
> that one's situation must be pristine in order to accuse others of
> malfeasance.

A good point, of course, but I fail to understand why you are
condemning Stereophile for poor behavior when it was you, yourself,
John, who told me _not_ to bother when I offered to resolve the
matter last July. In addition, I am not a mindreader. If you and the
late Bob Crump were so upset by what happened, why didn't either of
you contact me at the time? Why did you wait several years to raise
this matter in public?

> I don't think that dragging stuff up like this out helps anyone.

So why did you raise it, John? You told me when I offered to resolve
the matter that it was a closed issue for you. Obviously it was not.
And now you are criticizing me for _not_ resolving it? Pshaw.

John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile



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