The target seems safe -- not only dead but a known villain -- and the editorial stance a bit unfair: Is the editor defending the people from emotional manipulation, or chiding them as softhearted dunces?
Though editor Col Allen defended the cartoon in a statement earlier this week, the editorial goes a bit further: "to those who were offended by the image, we apologize".
Still, he said, the editorial staff is a bit slimmer now than it was a year ago, with 60 to 65 people now, down from "70, 72, something like that" on staff last summer, and two executive editors.
"Apple's Long-Awaited Shift on Music" (editorial, Jan . 9 seems a bit outdated in its characterizations of the music industry.
The resulting mix, in which glamorous celebrity portraits meet androgynous fine-art photos and manneristic fashion editorials, may seem a bit schizophrenic.
Just facts and a bit of editorial comment.
When I read that editorial, it struck me as a bit over the top.
It does speak for itself, and I would have welcomed a bit of editorial reeling it in.
It's true that "Horns" takes its fight to the finish and beyond, so that a bit of editorial tightening could have improved it.
As seen first at Victoria Beckham, where the designer claimed that she wanted something "a bit more editorial", then reprised at Marc Jacobs.
Soon after The New Yorker published the pianist Jeremy Denk's "Every Good Boy Does Fine" in its April 8 issue, Mr. Denk took to his blog Think Denk, and offered a bit of editorial second-guessing about his illuminating memoir of his studies.
