Noah's Bloomberg experience seems to demonstrate that editors MATTER, maybe a lot. A good editor is a Godsend, a bad one can do damage. So why is the solution eliminating the editorial layer rather than improving it? Also, my impression is that the media landscape is already disintermediated with highly varied editorial practices and a v…
Noah's Bloomberg experience seems to demonstrate that editors MATTER, maybe a lot. A good editor is a Godsend, a bad one can do damage. So why is the solution eliminating the editorial layer rather than improving it? Also, my impression is that the media landscape is already disintermediated with highly varied editorial practices and a very thin corps of editorial leadership. And that accounts for the huge volume of perfectly awful stuff I see on-line every day. Noah is focused on the thin slice that is the blogosphere, and maybe there his suggestion of getting rid of editors is not so destructive.
Noah's Bloomberg experience seems to demonstrate that editors MATTER, maybe a lot. A good editor is a Godsend, a bad one can do damage. So why is the solution eliminating the editorial layer rather than improving it? Also, my impression is that the media landscape is already disintermediated with highly varied editorial practices and a very thin corps of editorial leadership. And that accounts for the huge volume of perfectly awful stuff I see on-line every day. Noah is focused on the thin slice that is the blogosphere, and maybe there his suggestion of getting rid of editors is not so destructive.