Editor's chair - free to good home

In my line of work the old mantle 'don't shoot the messenger' has become my favourite catch cry.
I have twice been accused - once semi-publicly and once via an anonymous and, for that matter particularly venomous, letter - of "hating" AFW founder-cum-IMG Asia Pacific director Simon Lock.
I'm here to tell you this could not be further from the truth.
Any rage I have towards another human being is undoubtedly reserved for the Surry Hills parking rangers and those pesky telemarketers who interrupt my viewing of that most sacred of all UK-based comedy institutions, Coronation Street.
I neither have the time nor the inclination to waste my energy hating anyone - let alone someone I genuinely believe has personally done a lot to support Australian fashion.
In my dealings with Lock, I have always found him to be polite, courteous and extremely professional. And would like to think I have always responded in kind.
Admittedly some of the reports that have appeared in this magazine on events organised by IMG have not always shown its events in the most favourable of lights. But this has never been intended as an attack on Lock himself.
Secondly, our reports are exactly that - reports. Myself and my team are journalists - it is our job to report on an event or issue through the words of the people involved.
As any editor of any creditable magazine or newspaper will tell you, it is not our job to write fluffy public relations-type pieces or to convey our own thoughts on the issue under the thinly-veiled guise of a "news" story. If that was all we did it wouldn't be worth your while It is, however, our role to present the facts as they appear before us and for you our readers to interpret them as you choose.
The above noted, the one area of any magazine where an opinion by a staff member can be freely explored, is in this very column.
So, at the risk of being accused of God knows what next, I will now use this column to freely explore my thoughts on IMG's impending event, the Melbourne edition of Australian Fashion Week. Or more specifically, why you will struggle to find more than a scrap of information on it in this magazine.
Fact: we had originally dedicated a full page to writing a preview of the event so that you our readers could be kept up to date with timely information about who and who isn't showing, what international and domestic buyers are attending and what format changes have occurred.
Fact: countless times over recent weeks we have invited IMG to provide us with this information, even going so far as to extend the deadline by a week and forwarding the questions in advance.
Fact: It has been to no avail.
Fact: at the time of press - less than three weeks out from the event - not a scrap of information, aside from the date of the event, has been released to us, or so it appears to anyone else.
Opinion: From an editor's perspective the struggle to find replacement copy for the piece that never ran has been really annoying.
Judgement call: Is the fact few details have been released about the event so close to its staging something the wider fashion community should be concerned about?

* Note to Detractors: please be aware the above is not a personal attack on Lock - just this particular messenger's message.