Challenges for writers and editors

IT IS sometimes difficult to express to the public what people actually feel. This may be because of the fear that what writers want to say may not be accepted by a group of readers and the writers may be under the threat of obnoxious vilification from them. When writers write for a newspaper, they expect a protection umbrella from the newspaper concerned and from society as a whole. When editors find that the expected protection and support are dubious, they become conservative and withhold the publication.