There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.
I envision a future where there'll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It's freedom of participation absolutely realized.
It is a curious foible of a certain type of mind that it is unable to imagine a newspaper editor as one who may, on some public questions, honestly have the same view as that held by other persons.
If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.
Everybody needs an editor.
I wasn't weaned on the web nor coddled on a computer. Instead, I grew up in a highly centralized world where news and information were tightly controlled by a few editors, who deemed to tell us what we could and should know. My two young daughters, on the other hand, will be digital natives.
Authors worry. We worry about writing. Worry about our editors, our agents, our reviews, and our readers. We worry about everything, including all forms of social media including blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and personal websites.
We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house.
In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.