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.
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.
There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.
In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.
If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.
And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by Lynne Truss. The punctuation police are everywhere!
There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.
Journalists don't have audiences - they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more power than the traditional letters to the editor could wield.
Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.
That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.