[Foundation-l] Sue Gardener, Wikipedia's leading editor - wikileaks

[Ray Saintonge]

On 09/06/11 3:29 AM, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
> Funny, These lines remind us that a lot of the "intelligence" work is
> nothing more than reading the newspaper. No much real "leaking", one
> might say.
>
> Obviously, those writers love the word "leading" to make their readers
> understand the importance of the news. :-)
>
> Isn't it a problem in the English language that "editor" usually means
> a person who is publishing, like the editor (publisher?) of a
> newspaper?
>
No, in the usual senses they are very different.  Essentially the editor 
is responsible for the contents, and the publisher is responsible for 
the distribution.

Ray