haven't read the article as yet..will do so in a few hours time. (just woke up..) ornlu.. editors have to do their job. If aprilgem's observations are correct, well... they do have to edit it. I sympathize with you. I've had to butcher, rewrite stories completely..so much that reporters cried. But it was the only way of making it printable, short of trashing it. If the editor is a bad one, I think you ought to just take it up with them. Ask them why did they make the changes they did. Hopefully, they won't mind. If their editing changed the meaning of a sentence, or thought, tell them. They have to know. Occdoug, normally an editor won't show you what they edited before it's published, but I think you may be able to ask them here. If any changes are made that you don't approve, you can always tell them before it gets published.