It makes some sense. If you come to the conclusion
that your
constituency for a particularly important decision is a huge and
diverse array of people (i.e. the readers), and then further conclude
that opposition to your decision is coming from a very narrow and
homogenous slice of that array (i.e. contributors)... Ignoring the
opposition in favor of the "larger audience" could then be quite
reasonable.
Nathan
Why aren't more of us, that very narrow and homogenous slice of that
array, thinking that way, as publishers?
Fred