A Good Editor

A good editor should have solid writing and grammar skills, but this is just the beginning. They also need to be able to correct problems in another person's writing while displaying a combination of both assertiveness and sensitivity. People wear their hearts on their sleeves when it comes to writing and ,there needs to be a mixture of both positive and negative feedback.

An editor should also be very detail oriented; honestly I think that most people need to be detail oriented, but an editor needs to be this times a thousand. They need to see the mistakes the others see. They need to be on point.

Lastly, an editor needs to be a creative wordster while at the same time being very concise and analytical. They also need to perorm very tedious, mind-numbing work. I feel like editing is similar to that of solving algebraic expressions -- it's not for everyone.

Where I choose to get my news

I have to say that most of the time I get my news from the Web or the television. Although, on occasion, I do read a paper on Sundays. I'm not ashamed of the fact that I'm a Web junky when it comes to my news; its the quickest way the news is distributed. In this day and age the news comes at you in bits of information -- either through social networking sights like Facebook or Twitter or through blogs like the Huffington Post or Politico. Reading a paper is just SO old school.