1 Executive Director, American Academy of Pediatrics, Evanston, Illinois 60204
Dr. Davis' letter raises issues that are real but not new. Pediatrics, like most other journals sponsored by medical organizations, has been supported by a combination of subscription and advertising income since its beginning. The change in advertising policy in the last two years is an effort to continue to obtain the same kind of support from advertising income that has been possible in the past. Dr. Davis chooses to interpret financial data supplied at his request to indicate a profit to the Academy in the publication of the journal Pediatrics.