Mike Gunderloy's Argument Analysis

There are thousands of voices all trying to talk over one another, and it’s his job to see that they don’t. He does his best to offer each one of them a deal: go through him, and you’ll get an equal chance to speak with everyone. It’s a deal many of them take. Outside of their own circle, after all, most of these voices have little chance of reaching the limelight. If they let him act as a go-between, they can get a little farther out, even if it’s just to the other people desperate to be heard. The man’s name is Mike Gunderloy. He runs (or rather, ran) a magazine by the name of Factsheet Five, which he’s published, written, and edited since 1982. The publication is, essentially, a quite large selection of reviews - mostly of smaller publications,
Some nano-publishers heralded the community-building powers of Factsheet Five as a turning point in the culture’s history, which would allow them to expand like never before. Others remained sharply critical either of what they viewed as the much-loathed Selling-Out (for offering the publication for money in addition to trade) or of content that they felt was lacking in value (Gerry Reith, for example, disdained Gunderloy’s brief reviews). Still, Mike was nothing if not dedicated - the magazine rapidly became his full-time
Gunderloy was fortunate enough to have fifteen to twenty other writers helping review what would sometimes be hundreds of subjects each issue. Material came to his New York post box from the far left and right, as well as a number of obscure subcultures eager for a wider audience. Some, certainly, were not in entirely a healthy frame of mind; Mike received threatening letters from alleged psychics, and a regular column by Kerry Thornley was fraught with paranoia (“Conspiracy Corner with Kerry Thornley” was actually a compilation of various miscellania Thornley would send in without commentary, comprising various sheets of notebook paper covered in phrases like “Don't think I'm any longer under the illusion that anyone else in the ruling class is any more magnanimous. You are ALL