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Originally Posted by Attila
And, Wayne, just to rest my case:
How many finished bonsai at top price do you intend to purchase in the near future?
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A bit testy today? Personally I don't feel thats any of your business. How exactly does that finalize your case unless you've already lumped me into the "nerd" category that happen to be cheapskates. Maybe you were just offering to the forum an example of the dangers of jumping to conclusions?
Your ideas may have been poignant, but your diction is certainly inflammatory at best, though from your posts in defense of the post from which I quoted, it appears that judgemental isn't necessarily a stretch.
You say it isn't a magazine's role to teach techniques, yet you say that bonsai is light years behind other arts. Considering the audience for this magazine (is it wrong to assume the intended audience is American bonsaists?) and how far we are behind other arts, I don't think its necessarily wrong for techniques to be taught.
It seems to me that for some reason criticism of BT really incites you. I'm not all that familiar with BT, or others' affiliation with it so I don't really understand where all this is coming from. It seems to be that the majority of the group here (at least the vocal ones) seem to question the quality of its material over time. Apparently you think it's improved. You also question why others would even want some of the material that this magazine has had in the past. Why tell us what a magazine should or shouldn't have in it. I'm sure the subscriptions would tell the story of what this audience is looking for in a magazine. Again, consulting the local vocal majority's opinion, yours and theirs differ.
I am not a subscriber to any of the bonsai literature for the simple fact that I was unsure of when I was going to move and didn't want to have to worry with forwarding. I plan to find a few news stand copies of some of the various literature and base my subscription choice(s) on what I sample. I'd imagine thats what others do as well at least in the fact that they (continue to) subscribe to magazines they find useful.