I was reading the comments after the apology was issued and noticed other people writing what I was also thinking. In his apology he says that read it and chose to put it in because he thought it would spark a good dialogue. So, Dick Metcalf writes that horrible piece of trash, Jim OK's it and puts it in, G&A gets a huge back lash with long time readers cancelling their subscriptions in droves and then Dick gets fired... Nowhere in there does Jim get any consequences for not saying, "Ya know, Dick, I know you mean well with this article, but your arguments are just flat wrong and won't do anything to foster a healthy debate. Instead they'll sink this magazine so I'm not going to publish this crap."
It seemed like a good apology, but Jim Ok'd what Dick wrote and only Dick got fired...