Editors vs. designers

Tom Mangan hashes it out on a new Web forum for "visual editors," aka people who deal with typography, designing, graphics, etc. He gets the party started with:

I know designers gotta call themselves something, but all editing is visual, which renders the term meaningless.

The other subtly irritating thing about "visual" is the implication that everybody else is somehow vision-impaired.

Let the games begin!