Reply #55: I wasn't an internet editor then [View All]

[Oeditpus Rex]

You have to be careful where you toss that blanket. Newsrooms are, by and large, liberal — and that's not merely my estimation from having worked in a few; surveys back it up.

Now, when you say "editors," you need to be less vague. There are editors in chief, metro editors, city editors, national editors, foreign editors, wire editors, opinion editors... to say nothing of sports editors, features editors, business editors... and then the copy desk, which has desk chiefs, slot editors and rim editors.

Every damned one of 'em answers to a publisher, who in turn typically answers to a board of directors, who in turn answer to stockholders.

Whom do you blame?