Re "Rehabilitating Libya" (editorial, Jan . 5, which says President Bush and leaders of other countries should keep pressing Tripoli for change: As the mother of J. P. Flynn, who was blown out of the skies over Lockerbie, Scotland, in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing, I hope that this administration makes your editorial required reading for all State Department employees.
Winkler points out an additional issue that the editorial misses, required for full transparency in medical literature, namely, the requirement that "authors register clinical trials at trial outset rather than after they determine that the results, or which results, are to their liking".
The spokesman said: "The interview did not fit within the editorial standards required of the story, did not add any extra substance to the issues that were being canvassed and was not relevant to the report that was done.
This is the "good news," writes Kathryn Rexrode of Harvard Medical School in an editorial (subscription required) in the same issue, because publishing original research in prominent journals is "the currency of success for promotion in academic medicine".
AOL certainly doesn't put the top Netscape stories on its front page – there's a fairly arduous editorial process required just to get stories from the sprawling Weblogs Inc. network onto AOL proper.
The ruthless editorial decisions required to reduce a 400-page novel to a 24-page chapbook with woodcut illustrations may appear haphazard at times, omitting such vital scenes as Crusoe's discovery of the footprint, for instance, but actually express the preferences, interests, and reading practices of common readers.
The Rural blog said that "The New York Times often provides the best rural coverage of any national news organization, because it has the staff and the editorial interest required to do the coverage".
"To build a flying machine, declared one editorial, would require 'the combined and continuous efforts of mathematicians and mechanicians from one million to ten million years.' " "As it turned out, the feat was performed eight weeks after the editorial was written," he said.
The right-leaning newspaper Le Figaro rebuked the weekly for publishing "silly provocations" that fall into the trap of the Islamists, while the Roman Catholic La Croix asserted that "editorial responsibility requires an assessment of the consequences of what one publishes" and that "fuelling the flames to show one's noble resistance to extremism leads to offending simple believers".
Editorial work requires a skill.
Finally, editorial independence requires a statement regarding potential conflicts of interests of authors or commissioners.
