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Is it me, or is CBG the most cautious media organization in America? Their self-censorship standards remind me of newspapers in the PRC.

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Kinda funny when you think about it. They are writing about comic books and related items. Geez.

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Pressing, in particular, has been talked to death in our pages. Maggie has written of that panel she ran at San Diego where everyone agreed that pressing is not restoration -- or at least should not be a mark against a book -- and that's long since ratcheted way down the list of topics of likely interest, both to ourselves and, we believe, the majority of our readers. Our audience is more mainstream than it was in the newspaper days, and this is pretty esoteric for our crowd.

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We haven't wanted to say anything about it because we very much expected (and still expect) to get our ducks in a row -- but it does explain the situation.

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Is it me, or is CBG the most cautious media organization in America? Their self-censorship standards remind me of newspapers in the PRC.

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Kinda funny when you think about it. They are writing about comic books and related items. Geez.

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I know! When I read their responses, my first thought was that Woodward & Bernstein worked on a storyline that brought down a U.S. president, and it didn't take them 18 months to get it published. Although I'm no expert in media or defamation law, I don't think the applicable standard is that they must be absolutely certain of their facts before publishing, just that they didn't act negligently or wilfully.

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Awe4one started an interesting thread in the CBG forum about controversial topics and whether CBG would ever cover them in the magazine. This includes pressing, resubs, PCS and Ewert. CBG staff actually responded.

Since no doubt some of you would be interested in their response, here are the posts.

Subject: Why Has CBG Not Addressed Various Issues In This Hobby?

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Small circulation pubs like this don't live by subscriptions alone, advertising is a big part of why they stay in business. Nor are they particularly interested in lawsuits as even nuisance suits can result in substantial costs. I've heard lawyers are expensive.

It's a widely held view in the software biz that the dollars spent advertising impact the general editorial climate toward your product. If that's the situation in a much larger, more profitable publishing world than CBG, then their behavior, while disappointing, is not too much of a surprise.