AVN - Trade Rag With Delusions Of Grandeur
 

ahahahahahaha......... they call Luke Ford on not adhering to journalistic principles - Paul "Pot" Fishbein meet Luke "Kettle" Ford.


Ackman himself estimated the video segment at $500 million to $1.8 billion -- much less than AVN's $4 billion. "How Adult Video News gets this number is not clear. We asked Adult Video News' managing editor, Mike Ramone. 'I don't know the exact methodology,' he said, 'It's a pie chart.' Asked to break the figure down into sales versus rentals, a standard practice among those who cover the video industry, he said he didn't think it was available and suggested we call the editor-in-chief, who didn't return our calls."

In rushing to cover a titillating and unknown new subject, Ackman suggested, journalists have left their skepticism at the door. "Many have claimed [the industry] is large and profitable, especially on the Internet. Many of the claims are cut from whole cloth, but are accepted without question by the legitimate press. ... Certainly, self-interested statements by pornographers merit a second look."

AVN executives lashed back at Ackman, defending their figures as "absolutely correct," and suggesting that "people who sit and throw stones and do absolutely no research ... should not be taken seriously."

In an e-mail interview last year, AVN Editor Mike Ramone said: "Ackman had no objectivity, and was out to do a smear piece on AVN in an attempt to save face after being scooped by a major competitor, the New York Times Magazine."

Their best defense when somebody called them out for pulling figures out of their ass was 'uh.......it's a pie chart'.

A trade rag with delusions of grandeur.