Return Fire: Readers See Truth in Marine Magazine Critique

History of Dishonest Boat Reviews Comes Home To Roost

Last week’s Cannon about the decline of boating magazines describes how the industry had adopted practices beginning in the1960s and 70s that helped secure fantastic profits then but was killing them four decades later. Remembering my time as a magazine writer and editor from 2000 to 2020, I shared a few anectdotes of what I came to call my time in “the…