Monday, October 19, 2009

Because (One of) You Demanded It

The Atlantic's James Bennet Is Ad Age's Magazine A-List Editor of the Year, apparently.

Don't feel bad, even Ad Age doesn't know who he is, they just know how well he places products and sells that placement in the off the record paid salons which produce a large portion of the revenues he's being credited with. So yes, technically The Atlantic is still edited, and some tool named James Bennet is in charge of the pretense, though he doesn't put much effort into it.

"I really do believe that we rise or fall on the strength of our writers and bloggers," he says. "They're the stars."
which is why he doesn't require them to perform fact or grammar checks of their work before clicking "submit post".
Such is blogging.

2 comments:

FGFM said...

In the spring of 2006, owner David Bradley surprised the publishing world by selecting a guy with scant editing experience to be his new editor.

Go figure.

clever pseudonym said...

I really do believe that we rise or fall on the strength of our writers and bloggers.

I'm just waiting for the fall, buddy.