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[Brian Sorgatz]

Peggy Wilkins wrote:
>I think this is a breakthrough.  We can now see much more clearly why
>PLAYBOY has gone in the direction that it has -- it is because its
>founder and Editor In Chief believes (either on his own or because he
>was convinced by others, it doesn't matter which) that society has
>changed in this way, and that the way to address this change is to
>dumb down PLAYBOY.  This is partly an oversimplification, but I think
>it is true at the core, and it makes a large portion of our task here
>much more clearly defined: we must try to convince him that while
>society has indeed changed (the observations he makes are undeniable),
>the way to approach those changes in a new PLAYBOY is not to dumb it
>down.

I agree that changing Mr. Hefner's mind on this matter ought to be the 
primary goal of this mailing list.  Everything else that we've discussed 
here is secondary.  Peggy, if we all feel this way, maybe you should draft a 
unanimous statement to this effect in your final report.  We have many 
differences of opinion, but I will be surprised if anyone here disagrees 
with your assessment of this situation.

Brian Sorgatz