Another great piece of media criticism by Freddie, which includes this nugget in a footnote:

There’s also, it should be said, a fetishization of editing in this business that I find unhelpful. Of course good editing is essential. Of course editors play a vital role in making sure what gets published is comprehensible, well-expressed, and true. And, also, sometimes editors are wrong and need to be told so. Good editing is good, bad editing is not, and hopefully you and the editor work out which is which in the process. The problem is that a lot of piety gets injected into the subject of editing, as if editing is good for its own sake , a sacrament. Good editing is that which results in good writing. Editing is as editing does and so editing should be regarded as an indispensable tool rather than as a marker of maturity, as a totem.