Lets beat up on G.M. Don't think so..

[blucar]

Throughout the many years that I have been on the Ford Barn and EFV8 Club, Forum I have to smile to myself each time.. G.M., responds to a topic and some people take him to task for touting "Skips water-pumps, etc"..
Actually I think that G.M. deserves more credit for his responses, in lieu of negative remarks..
From my prospective G.M.'s comments are actually "Info-mercials"..
G.M. generally provides very good information relative to the content of the topic, then he introduces his comments about Skip's products, buried within the response..
During a period in time during my working years I was the Managing Editor of an industry publication that had world wide distribution. The "publication" served three purposes, it was an informational instrument covering technical subjects, news of the industry, and most of all it raised huge amounts of money which helped to pay operating expenses and employee salaries..
The booklet was distributed to subscribers free of charge, the cost to do this was paid by the manufactures that submitted their P.R., technical info, etc.. The one requirement was that the articles, pictures, etc. had to be carefully crafted in a manner that did not imply that the article (s) were commercial advertisements.. i.e. Info-mercials..
The publication lasted for over forty years, generating huge amounts of money for the promotion of the industry, then a new board of directors tried to turn the publication into a political publication, and their greed did away with the free subscriptions..
Within a year and a half the publication was dead...