Aaron Sorkin interviews David Carr

Carr is a media columnist for the New Tork Times; Sorkin is the fellow who created The West Wing, among other things.

The names drew me in, but these remarks of Carr's are what make me recommend that you read the interview. (Page One is a new documentary about "the inner workings" of the paper.)

But I think one of the things that Page One does an amazing job of demonstrating is the importance of editors. You can see our editor, Bruce Headlam, shaping, arguing, pushing back. Of course, that’s what you don’t have a lot of in the blogosphere. There is nobody pushing people to support what they’re saying, nobody arguing against the assumptions that are brought to the table—and reporters, even the ones I work with, are full of all sorts of notions. Some of them have ideas that are pretty hair-brained or not really provable.

There's a reason editors came to be a critical part of the publishing ecosystem, people.

[UPDATE: Somehow I forgot to link to the Interview article. Oops. Link courtesy of LongReads.]