I can't write about what I don't care about or if I don't feel I can say what I want. For example, about two years ago, a magazine offered me a tempting sum to fly out to Hollywood and do a profile of Sharon Stone. But I don't give a flying fuck about Sharon Stone, so, for purely practical and writerly reasons, I had to pass. This question is more than a little vague. There are all kinds of differences.
Some places are too controlling and over-edit.
Some don't edit enough. And so forth. For years I wrote a column for The Guardian in the UK, where I found that much more in the way of nastiness, satire, and general poor taste is allowable than here. Columns that had been published in The Guardian would sometimes be rejected by left publications here, on the grounds that they were too gross or might hurt someone's feelings. I have no idea what goes on at the New York Times, or inside Time , for that matter.