The emails are interesting. I’m surprised Greenwald’s editors give such detailed written feedback instead of, say, over the phone. The language used offers so

The emails are interesting. I’m surprised Greenwald’s editors give such detailed written feedback instead of, say, over the phone. The language used offers some scope for compromise, but in general it’s pretty forthright. In my experience the back and forth of an email chain thread will only further entrench positions rather than engender persuasiveness. We all know this, right? It’s nothing new and it happens all the time on HN comments too. What’s odd — and maybe I show here how little I know about the people management side of running a commercial journalism org — is that the editor’s critique happens in writing.