On Friday, April 26, 2002 10:59 PM, Bjorn wrote:

> > Strike (Who's just resigned - after ten years - from Asian Diver
> Magazine!)

> So there went the last reason why anyone would want to read what started
as
> one of the world's best dive rags, and went steadily downhill from there!
> Why did you go ?

Just about a year ago, there was a mass exodus of the entire staff,
(publisher, editor, sales team; and key contributors - like Tony Wu).
 They - the owners - threw money at me to stay on and, being the greedy
little bastard that I am, I agreed.     The reason that I've now decided to
go is the magazine's continuing lack of direction or purpose; the lack of
passion or understanding about diving;  their inability to view publishing
as a business that ultimately relies on industry and reader support; and the
crippling restrictions that they wanted to place on me in terms of who I
could and could not write for!  In short, I left because of 'philosophical
differences'!  :-)

Having been with the magazine since its concept stage, it's not a decision
that I arrived at lightly! :-)

Strike