Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Most editors are just worried about their jobs. They're overwhelmed. They're underpaid. They do the best they can.
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.
I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.
In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.
Most writers adore their editors, and I'm no exception.
In my experience, with very few exceptions - I am, as it happens, one of the exceptions - the one thing that most editors don't want to do is edit. It's not nearly as conducive to a successful career as having lunch out with important agents or going to meetings where you get noticed.
There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.
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.
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.