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who cares about writers? - Robbie - 08-18-2014
Surely someone here has an opinion.
http://gawker.com/against-editors-1623198702
When does football start?
Many, many book authors... - Redrum - 08-18-2014
...have professed love for their editors and credit them publicly. It might be just the form, fiction novels being a different creature than magazine or newspaper or website. Every editor I wrote for probably made me better. Given what they were working with, how could they not? The only bad editor I worked for was a Stanford Daily editor who had the story of a Faculty Senate meeting already written in his mind. When I returned from the Senate bore-fest he upbraided me for being too uninformed to see what was really going on and how meaningful and insidious it all was. So he just took the story I wrote, scanned it, and then wrote his version.
He might well have been right about me, but he or someone sent me out to cover what I saw, and I really didn't grasp how his version--written in the old Daily building-- improved things not in evidence at the event.
Re: who cares about writers? - 82lsju - 08-18-2014
how about the relative "value" of journalists and public relations specialists?
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/08/11/the-growing-pay-gap-between-journalism-and-public-relations/
Re: Many, many book authors... - Rally - 08-18-2014
(08-18-2014, 03:05 PM)Redrum link Wrote:...have professed love for their editors and credit them publicly. It might be just the form, fiction novels being a different creature than magazine or newspaper or website. Every editor I wrote for probably made me better. Given what they were working with, how could they not? The only bad editor I worked for was a Stanford Daily editor who had the story of a Faculty Senate meeting already written in his mind. When I returned from the Senate bore-fest he upbraided me for being too uninformed to see what was really going on and how meaningful and insidious it all was. So he just took the story I wrote, scanned it, and then wrote his version.
He might well have been right about me, but he or someone sent me out to cover what I saw, and I really didn't grasp how his version--written in the old Daily building-- improved things not in evidence at the event.
Some call this "new journalism."