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Please tell us more. To me "provocative" can be good, can be bad, or anywhere in the middle.
Jean, you can read it yourself. Even if you don't receive the link (which as a CFC member you should), you can just go to the website, as this month's CCN is viewable by all.
Jean, you can read it yourself. Even if you don't receive the link (which as a CFC member you should), you can just go to the website, as this month's CCN is viewable by all.
Where exactly?? (a link please) because when I go to the newsletter-archives
(at http://www.chess.ca/cfc-newsletter-archive )
it says the current issue (September-October) is for members only and it is not a link.
Last edited by Kerry Liles; Wednesday, 24th October, 2012, 09:38 PM.
Reason: what I think is the current issue
Jean, you can read it yourself. Even if you don't receive the link (which as a CFC member you should), you can just go to the website, as this month's CCN is viewable by all.
Fred, of course I have read the article. I am just interested in getting what Kerry meant exactly by "provocative". Is it good or not so good and in what way ?
Where exactly?? (a link please) because when I go to the newsletter-archives
(at http://www.chess.ca/cfc-newsletter-archive )
it says the current issue (September-October) is for members only and it is not a link.
Sorry, I was jumping the gun. It is the Nov issue that is freely available. I guess you'll have to find some alternate way to access it.
You mean Ken not Kerry, Jean. Provocative as in designed to provoke a response. In short, I don't think that article should have been published. Editor Porper should not have allowed writer Porper a platform to publish his thoughts about Olympian Porper's experience. I think it shows bad editorial judgment.
Last edited by Ken Craft; Thursday, 25th October, 2012, 10:12 AM.
You mean Ken not Kerry, Jean. Provocative as in designed to provoke a response. In short, I don't think that article should have been published. Editor Porper should have have allowed writer Porper a platform to publish his thoughts about Olympian Porper's experience. I think it shows bad editorial judgment.
Thank you Ken. I see your point but I wonder if many people share that subjective view. Would that issue have been more interesting and more informative for readers without that article ? Or maybe the idea of providing interesting and, why not, provocative reading is beyond the mandate of the CCN editor ?
Do you dispute the content or was the article "inconvenient"?
I have not read the article (I am waiting for the issue to be free for the public to read). In general, the editor of any publication (unless he or she is also the owner of the entity) is presumably accountable to the owners of the publication.
In this case, I would have to think that the editor is responsible to the CFC Executive? I do not think the magazine is 'proofed' by the Executive (but it may be). If the Executive don't pre-approve the contents, then I guess they get what they get.
I have not read the article (I am waiting for the issue to be free for the public to read). In general, the editor of any publication (unless he or she is also the owner of the entity) is presumably accountable to the owners of the publication.
In this case, I would have to think that the editor is responsible to the CFC Executive? I do not think the magazine is 'proofed' by the Executive (but it may be). If the Executive don't pre-approve the contents, then I guess they get what they get.
I'm pretty sure it's done on a first draft basis. How else can you explain the amount of text that was written on that subject? It's obviously a major case of conflict of interest.
Most editors will not allow the owners/publishers to " approve the contents " - editorial independence. I maintained this with Scarborough CC when I was the editor of Scarborouigh Community of Toronto Chess News & Views for 13 years.
Of course, this can lead to the editor being fired if a settlement on some topic cannot be reached.
My guess is that Edward believes in " editorial independence " too.
It is a different issue of the extent to which the editor should " cover him/herself ". That is a trickier one, and I found I did have to wrestle with that regularly, since I was active in chess in many different capacities.
Bob A
Last edited by Bob Armstrong; Thursday, 25th October, 2012, 11:19 AM.
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