An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Editors are supposed to separate quality content from low quality, but often publish the low quality.
- In plain terms
- Editors separate good from bad but print the bad stuff.
- What can you take from it?
- Publishing often favors low quality over high quality.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Why do editors print the chaff?
- What defines wheat versus chaff in news?
Another view
Sometimes low quality content is what audiences actually want to read.
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