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>Gwyneth Paltrow had created a best-selling cookbook and popular lifestyle blog A contributing editor job is essentially a writing position. That strongly indi

• corin_ 12y ago
  I'm not arguing that she could (or couldn't), just that whether she could do the job was more than just "she's famous". Personally I fall in the camp of people who will judge on experience more than degrees, clearly Meyer is on the other side.
  • commandar 12y ago
    That's kind of the thing, though. Contributing editors are often brought in because of their notoriety. There's valuing a particular quality in an employee, and then there's being completely misguided in weighting that quality.
  • nerfhammer 12y ago
    Plenty of people could write as well as David Pogue, Nate Silver, Ezra Klein, etc., but the expectation is that those writers will bring the audience. They get seven figure salaries not because they can write articles really well, but that they can bring an audience wherever they go and create revenue worth what they're getting paid