Chuck Palahniuk. Ghosts (№ 387)

In Ancient Rome, says Sister vigilante, the Coliseum, was the position of editor, host of the gladiatorial games. To ensure that people remained peaceful and didn't kill each other, they were bloody spectacles in which organization was doing editory. From this word came the modern "editor", editor. Today our editors come up with a menu of murder, rape, arson and armed robberies on the front pages of daily Newspapers.