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Originally Posted by Far-L
My apologies btw to Tom Hymes who I see now wrote the AVN article - certainly not trying to diss you personally - but I do expect more in terms of investigative work to provide better insights on this story through a greater degree of presentation of facts, exhumed Woodward and Bernstein style, and not just speculation and innuendo about what actually went down.
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Yeah, but it's much better than this.
Ackman himself estimated the video segment at $500 million to $1.8 billion -- much less than AVN's $4 billion. "How Adult Video News gets this number is not clear. We asked Adult Video News' managing editor, Mike Ramone. '
I don't know the exact methodology,' he said, 'It's a pie chart.' Asked to break the figure down into sales versus rentals, a standard practice among those who cover the video industry, he said he didn't think it was available and suggested we call the editor-in-chief, who didn't return our calls."
http://www.alternet.org/story/13212/?page=2
Before starting last year, I tried to read as much as possible about everything and I thought the "I don't know the exact methodology. It's a pie chart." quote was one of the funniest things ever. It's almost like a line from Anchorman.