"The Nazification of Israel, " by Aijaz Ahmad

Jeffrey Fisher jfisher at igc.org
Mon May 13 13:08:33 PDT 2002


On Monday, May 13, 2002, at 03:01 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:


> Brad DeLong wrote:
>
>>> And what about the content? Editors and authors have been known to
>>> put inflammatory titles on pieces to attract attention. What does
>>> Ahmad say, and what do you disagree with?
>>
>> Can you escape responsibility for the title you place on your work?
>> The title, after all, is the set of words that is going to be read the
>> most...
>
> I have no idea what the practice at Frontline is, but authors often
> have little say in what titles are applied to their pieces. I'm very
> partial to headline creation, and hate to outsource it, but editors
> often take pride in applying their own.

back when i was in editorial at a politics ezine, our ME pretty much never let writers title their own works, as i recall.

jeff



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