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爱德华·博克:爱德华·博克自传·补录 252
爱德华·博克《爱德华·博克自传》· The Americanization of Edward Bok · 领导
It is the rare editor who rightly gauges his public psychology. Perhaps that is why, in the enormous growth of the modern magazine, there have been produced so few successful editors. The average editor is obsessed with the idea of "giving the public what it wants," whereas, in fact, the public, while it knows what it wants when it sees it, cannot clearly express its wants, and never wants the thing that it does ask for, although it thinks it does at the time. But woe to the editor and his periodical if he heeds that siren voice!
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定位:Additional excerpt 252 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
白话
很少有编辑能正确判断公众心理,这或许是现代杂志巨大增长中成功编辑寥寥的原因。普通编辑痴迷于“给公众他们想要的”,但实际上,公众看到时才知道想要什么,却无法清楚表达,而且从不想要他们要求的东西,尽管当时以为想要。编辑若听信这种海妖般的呼声,就会遭殃。
上下文
博克在20世纪初反思杂志编辑的成功要素,指出编辑不能盲目迎合读者表面需求,而要洞察深层心理。
今日一问
你最近一次“以为想要”的东西,得到后真的满足了吗?
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