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>But if you're looking to hire someone to actually run something then being famous isn't enough on its own. This is what I was touching on downthread and I gue
by commandar 12y ago
>But if you're looking to hire someone to actually run something then being famous isn't enough on its own.
This is what I was touching on downthread and I guess wasn't entirely clear: a contributing editor doesn't run anything.
They don't copy-edit other writers' work. They don't manage anyone. They don't touch anything related to the business backend.
It's a prestige title given to writers that generate an audience. That's it.
- corin_ 12y agoSo is your (and others) assumption that Mayer was literally making a decision based on no logic at all? The reason I made my point was that judging someone based on not having a degree can be considered foolish, judging someone on not having a degree where a degree couldn't even be related isn't foolish it's just nonsense - so I gave Mayer the benefit of the doubt. But maybe I was wrong to?
- commandar 12y agoThat's exactly why that anecdote has gotten an incredulous reaction. If it's accurate that the position was for a contributing editor for a food blog, caring about a degree is completely nonsensical. It's certainly possible that the story is inaccurate, but it seems to have been included in the article as an intentional example of bizarre decision making.
- TheOtherHobbes 12y agoIt's not unusual for content that appears to be by famous names to be ghost written and (sometimes) approved by the famous name. Or their agent. So here was absolutely no reason not to hire Paltrow - even if she can't write her way out of a YouTube comments section. Celebrity culture sells. It's kind of disappointing, but empirically it's what a lot of people want and will pay money for.