Editors may think of themselves as dignified headwaiters in a well-run restaurant but more often [they] operate a snack bar . . . and expect you to be grateful that at least they got the food to the table warm.
Source: How True: A Skeptic's Guide to Believing the News, Atlantic-Little, Brown 74
-- Thomas Griffith, (Dec 30 1915-2002), US writer, editor; He worked for Time Inc. for 30 years and was known in the organization as the house liberal; wrote The Waist-High Culture, 1959.