Just as an aside, there is a particular UK aviation publication which is widely regarded as being totally advertising based. I've only ever written for them once, in slightly odd circumstances. I read an article that I felt was complete airbollox, so I rang the editor and told him so. His response was "well, you'd better write a correct article then, and I'll publish it in the next issue".
I did, and he did- without any amendment - he even stated that it was correcting the previous.
I think all editors would prefer to be as honest, complete and truthful as they can - it's just not always all that easy for them.
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Completely mystified about some of the background politics to this thread.