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Business Day, Johannesburg, 20 June 2005
=The Thick End of the Wedge=

(Excerpt)
 * Peter Bruce**

I WROTE here last year that I have never believed an editor should interfere with the copy columnists file once they have been invited to contribute regularly to the newspaper. And I never have.

But columnists get invited to write because they are particularly strong on one subject or another. Some do politics, others business. Some attack whites and others blacks. Some do regions and some are national. A columnist operating outside his or her strength is never a pretty sight, which is why I also wrote that, rather than fiddle with columns or argue with columnists, if they no longer fit the bill then the entire column should go.

Thus it is that David Gleason’s Torque column is no longer with us. Like many readers I will miss the sharp pen. But I had asked him to write me a business column and I was getting too much politics. The result was inevitable.


 * From: http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/opinion.aspx?ID=BD4A57928

Note: Peter Bruce is the editor of the Business Day and “The Thick End of the Wedge” is his occasional private column, appearing when he feels like it.

Send messages of support to David Gleason at david@gleason.co.za **