Editor for a day...

"But this law [which enabled the authorities to silence the press in the Meiji era] had a considerable loophole: while it included provisions allowing the authorities to prosecute editors, it did not permit them to shut down papers that violated the law. As a result, the press began to hired so-called editors, whose main purpose was to serve the jail sentences handed down when their papers were caught having published offending articles." Closing the Shop, Laurie Ann Freeman, Princeton University Press 2000. p. 29