The editors thought if you didn't publish it, much of this would go away.

The editors thought if you didn't publish it, much of this would go away. Associated Press kept on wanting pictures, and The News would be slow on letting them have them, so they flooded the town with photographers. The AP started sending pictures all over, and it mushroomed.

The editors thought if you didn't publish it, much of this would go away. Associated Press kept on wanting pictures, and The News would be slow on letting them have them, so they flooded the town with photographers.

All "little" magazines have the luxury of thinking the reader is the same person as their editors.

Editor: A person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.