The Art of Editing: The New Old Skills for a Curated Life

摘要

In a workshop led by Ira Glass, host of public radio's "This American Life," I heard him admit, "We edit out people's breaths and pauses in the interviews before they go on air." Referring to those urns and stammers, this well-known personality admitted to a group of aspiring storytellers that his renowned radio show might not be as unvarnished as it had once seemed. Editing out pauses makes the story flow better-a measure designed to improve his audience's experience. Even the non-frilly is edited.