POINT OF ORDER
TIM COHEN: Reflections on editing a critical newspaper
I feel somewhat akin to a battle-scarred soldier in the trenches of the First World War — blistered, bruised, twitching at every loud bang, but enormously happy to have survived
This is my last column as editor of Business Day, and I thought it might be enlightening to reflect a little on what it’s been like to be the editor of a newspaper in the era of former president Jacob Zuma and current US president, Donald Trump, to name just two icons of our time. I have absolutely loved every moment of being editor of this paper and I stand down with a sense of a job respectably, albeit incompletely, done in difficult circumstances. But at the same time, I can’t help noticing that my friends have diminished; my enemies have increased; I open my e-mail with trepidation; I barely scan Twitter because I know someone will be shouting at me and I meet people often with a cautious demeanour. I feel somewhat akin to a battle-scarred soldier in the trenches of the First World War — blistered, bruised, twitching at every loud bang, but enormously happy to have survived and somewhat proud of having fought well even though victory seems elusive. The biggest problem with being...
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