The meeting actually moved over to a perhaps more useful focus of providing some interaction between manufacturing executives, industry organization representatives and the press focusing on the needs of the manufacturers and industry organizations. He thinks the three greatest magazines in the world are National Geographic, Harvard Business Review and the Economist. We should expect this level of editorial comment in boating publications. Editorial integrity is important. Motor Trend never says anything bad about the cars they test.
Readers can see right through that.
The power of the pen is mighty. If some skepticism or criticism of dealers or the industry is printed, we do them a huge dis-service. He wants us to build up their part of the industry. Some retail writers write about dealers doing something wrong. The Unite the Industry for Growth and Certification programs have received a lot of articles that were critical.