Blog-mania

Personally, I am concerned over the evanescence of quality in media as a whole. With the emergence of blogs, podcasts, and video-sharing sites we are all empowered to be the (1) creaters (2) fact-checkers (3) editors and (4) publishers of content. Millions of amateurs now flood the information space with (1) hastily created (2) often baseless (3) unedited material that, worst of all, is (4) professionally published!

Perhaps there never has been an absolute assurance of quality in media. The New York Times has likely never put an issue in print without a few typos. But out of concern for reputation, and for the cost of production too, there has been a rigorous filter determining what gets published and what gets pidgeon-holed. Now that everyone and their mothers can publish online with virtually the same visabilty as The New York Times, NPR, or Miramax, the online landscape is becoming less and less readable. Ladies and gentlemen, static has filled the airwaves.