Edifying Editing
http://www.mcafee.cc/Papers/PDF/EditorExperiences.pdf

McAfee, R. Preston
McAfee.cc
2009

Abstract:

It is a management truism that having a vision based on false hypotheses is better than a lack of vision, and like all truisms it is probably false some of the time, but the same feature holds true in editing: the editor’s main job is to decide what is published, and what is not.