Totally agree. Editors were used by publishers for a reason, and they very often managed to cut down texts by significant amounts. Most bloggers could use an ed

Totally agree. Editors were used by publishers for a reason, and they very often managed to cut down texts by significant amounts. Most bloggers could use an editor that would make their writing more snappy. The same goes for many of the nowadays popular bestseller non-fiction books that are very clearly stuffed with repetitive writing and random anecdotes to hit some page limit.