>This attitude that "our message is more important than the
>presentation" is very on display in the Leftist press, including
>such ugly publications as Z Magazine. My reply to those leftists who
>dismiss spending any effort on the aesthetics of presentation is to
>ask them why they even bother to edit the articles that go in their
>magazines. If the ideas are so important that they can stand on
>their own, why bother with editing?
Someone told me once that Michael Albert says editing copy is "authoritarian," so he shuns it.
Doug