An Interview With Bob Hoff, President, Omni Corporate Services
Charlie recanted, somewhat. In another editorial titled "Buying Groups - From a BIG NO to a little yes," published in March 1981, he explained his original antipathy as follows: "The tone of those articles would have been very different, and the hostility much less, if at all, had the buying groups not given us the 'stonewall' treatment when we sought to interview them. They wouldn't return our phone calls or answer our letters. They acted like they were a secret society up to no good; very furtive about it all, as though something were going on that could not stand the light of day ... To a journalist, this is like a red flag to a bull."