Revenge of the Experts?
That’s the headline at Newsweek. Sigh.
Will the day ever come when journalists and pundits at large media companies recognize that authority and expertise have never fallen out of favor at audience-supported content? By “audience-supported,” I’m making a distinction between most of the 15 million blogs out there that are wonderful platforms to share stuff with friends but have no real audience to speak of (content but not media), and the few thousand sites, print magazines, newspapers and TV shows that have a following big enough to show up in an audit. Which is a more useful distinction than “published by a big company” versus “user-generated content.”
It’s just that “expert” status now comes from the quality of the work delivered, not the corporate entity listed on the author’s business card.
